South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
South African Christians are urged to stand with Israel at a prayer rally at Redemption Church, Greenstone Shopping Centre, Johannesburg from 2pm to 4pm on Sunday. Those who can’t be there in person can join via live streaming (see https://www.tshwane.org/sa for live streaming info). The venue for the prayer rally, […]
Parliament’s second house, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), adopted the controversial Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill (Hate Speech Bill) during its plenary sitting today, reports Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) in a press release, The bill, which according to FOR SA criminalises […]
A prayer rally for Israel in Sea Point, Cape Town yesterday was cancelled by police before it started after militant Palestine supporters — some carrying Hamas, ISIS and Hezbollah flags — illegally invaded the venue and engaged in violent behaviour when asked to disperse. Palestine supporters started arriving at the […]
South African Christians are urged to participate in prayer rallies — in Sea Point, Cape Town on Sunday November 12 and in Pretoria on Sunday November 19 — to stand in solidarity with Israel after the nation suffered brutal attacks by Hamas on October 7. “We’re hoping to have churches […]
God moved powerfully in the hearts of people who participated in three separate Bible-reading marathons in late October — in Kariega (Uitenhage), Middelburg, Mpumalanga and Kareedouw in the Eastern Cape. [See testimonies later on this page from some of the Bible readers] At Kariega, which held its sixth consecutive annual Bible-reading […]
South Africa’s emergency-response Chaplain on Board Initiative (COBI) owes its birth to a pledge he made in the 1990s after somebody knocked on his door and stopped him from committing suicide, said the ministry founder and CEO, Professor Willie du Toit. Speaking at the recent commissioning of eight COBI chaplains […]
When Free State artist Loezytha Maritz saw a photograph of three men exuberantly embracing one another she “immediately knew” she wanted to paint it as her contribution to a prophetic art exhibition at an upcoming Time2Rise event outside Bloemfontein. “I always want to capture emotion in my paintings. I want […]
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has not yet responded to a call made on it last Thursday to help secure the release of two South African women kidnapped by Hamas, says South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) national spokesperson Bafana Modise. “We still haven’t received any response […]
Double World-Cup-winning Springbok rugby captain Siya Kholisi’s “growth as a disciple of Jesus has been amazing,” says Bruce Nadin co-founder of Sports Chaplaincy South Africa and sports chaplain at Stellenbosch Football Club. “It’s so easy to go out on the field, you know, and say, I give all the glory […]
The National Assembly (NA) this afternoon approved the controversial Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill which the DA vowed earlier today to challenge “all the way to the Constitutional Court”. At 12.15 today the DA, ACDP, FF+ and civil society groups united outside Parliament to protest against the forcing of […]