South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent I shudder with a mixture of virtual disbelief and horror at the lethal poison of antisemitism that is spreading across the world like wildfire, aided and abetted by Britain’s ruling Labour Party. Calling for sanctions against a long-term ally on top of further inflaming Jew-hatred […]
Originally published in National Catholic Register Parliamentary scrutiny, grassroots mobilization, concern for vulnerable people, underfunded end-of-life care — and plenty of prayer — combined to halt the proposed law. A combination of crucial factors led to the defeat of proposed assisted-suicide legislation in England and Wales earlier this month, delivering […]
By Bafana Modise, National Spokesperson of South African Friends of Israel More than 5 500 people gathered at Mount Beula Park & Mount Zion in Edenvale, Johannesburg, on Saturday in a powerful demonstration of Christian prayer, national intercession and solidarity with Israel, as the South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) […]
Psalm 37:31 (NKJV), “The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.” If the heart is right, then the whole man will be right. One of my spiritual sons sent me a letter on my cell phone not so long ago explaining how complex […]
By Pastor Bert Pretorius, President: South African Community of Faith-Based Fraternals and Federations (SACOFF) Eight women. Eight bodies now forming part of an expanding police investigation in Ekurhuleni. And once again South Africans are being told that “no stone will be left unturned”. We welcome President Cyril Ramaphosa’s instruction that […]
Q: I’d be interested in hearing your take on managing “little spats” in marriage. Sometimes my wife and I get into minor disagreements that escalate quickly. I think we’re both at fault. One of us says something snippy, the other responds a bit angrier and a bit louder, back and […]
Cape Town author and speaker Amanda Perry (above) shares her testimony of living under the weight of exhaustion and burnout for 23 years — and how she gained recovery It was the middle of the night, and I was too weak to get myself out of bed. So I put […]
President Ramaphosa has embraced the language of self-regulation for the Church. But a council established by an Act of Parliament to determine where your faith begins and ends is not self- regulation. It is state control by another name. In the article below Pastor Bert Pretorius president of the South […]
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent We are surely moving a step closer to the day when all Israel will recognise Yeshua as their true Messiah. As reports come in of increasing numbers of Jewish people now following Jesus — long regarded by many of them as the ‘Christian’ God — […]
Few phrases in the Christian lexicon are quoted as often — and misapplied as easily — as Paul’s instruction to “speak the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15). All too often, this verse can become a theological loophole. We may use “truth” as a vehicle to deliver (harsh) criticism, dressing up […]