South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Hope began to return to farmers in the Willowmore area yesterday at a prayer event called “Hope in the Karoo”, led by farmer-evangelist Angus Buchan, Farmers were desperate after seven years of drought which had resulted in many selling their livestock because they could no longer feed them, said local […]
‘The Blood of Jesus will not save you from Covid’ says a large yellow banner that was raised last Thursday on the steeple of the Central Methodist Mission, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. “Get vaccinated. Protect our healthcare workers” continues the banner which forms part of the church’s “Yellow banner theology” […]
Christian singer and pastor Heinz Winckler has responded to a backlash against him in social media following news reports that he led a group of parents in questioning a decision by a Somerset West primary school to support the wishes of a transgender pupil to be treated as a female. […]
With an increasing push both globally and locally for the introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccines various groups in South Africa are taking steps to oppose what they see as an onslaught against vital constitutional freedoms — and are calling on Christians to make their voices heard. In Johannesburg today the […]
On Saturday October 3, Africa Christian Action (ACA), along with about 1 800 pro-life groups around the world, held a life chain event in Cape Town to pray and protest peacefully against the abortion holocaust which claims the lives of about 40 to 50 million babies a year. They have […]
Sunday October 3 is International Life Chain Sunday, a day which has previously seen as many as a million Christians in 1 800 locations worldwide participating in peaceful, prayer protest against abortion. In South Africa life chain events are planned in Cape Town on Sunday and in Kempton Park and […]
The David and Jonathan Foundation (D&J) recently “put its feet back in the Jordan” to see if people would once again turn out for an afternoon event in Cape Town. With careful conformity to Covid restrictions and held as before at the Logos Gemeente, the gathering on Saturday August 21 […]
Dr Ruben Richards reflects on the spiritual significance of an event he witnessed last week when members of the Citrusdal Khoisan community washed the feet of a White commercial farmer, Tobias Basson and apologised to him for their racism towards Whites. Twelve years earlier, after he accepted Jesus at a […]
Gansbaai has begun a journey in which people of all races and ages are committed to working together to eradicate crime and poverty and transform the community, says Chris Swart, a pioneer of Project South Africa in the Western Cape coastal town. Chris believes that over the past few years […]
The attack on Chief Justice Mogoeng’s right to express his Christian views on Israel is not new but a continuation of an ancient battle spoken about in Psalm 83 which says that those who hate God will attack the very people of God, said Vivienne Myburgh, national director of the […]