South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Xenophobia and lawlessness are unacceptable but community frustrations cannot be dismissed, says SACOFF in statement released this week on the crisis around illegal immigration The South African Community of Faith-Based Fraternals & Federations (SACOFF) has noted with deep concern the growing tensions surrounding migration, undocumented persons, community protests, and incidents […]
Seemingly a paradox, it is one of the silent aches in the South African Church today, and more common than many of us would like to admit. We enter the church looking for a sanctuary — a place of safety, community, and unconditional love and acceptance, but what we sometimes […]
Last November we reported on the South Africa launch of Run With Christ (RWC), a run club ‘movement to make Heaven full’. RWC SA co-leader Zandeli Gamble brings us up to date with developments in the movement in 2026 Over January, the various branches of RWC South Africa — Pretoria, […]
Originally published in My Christian Daily Why do some politicians and media refuse to recognise what many Nigerian Christians and their supporters regard as an obvious genocide? On May 16 gunmen stormed three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, abducting 39 students and seven teachers in a coordinated attack. […]
A monthly column in which Julita Kok shares on living adventurously with God I have just returned from one month in the US. What a blessing it was. I travelled to Dallas, then to Tulsa and from Tulsa, did a road trip to Nashville. From there I traveled to Dallas, then […]
Q: Can you help me with an awkward situation involving an extended family member? Recently this person harshly disagreed with something I posted on social media, and I confess I didn’t respond well. The (unfortunately) public dispute has escalated into critical private messages and even some caustic texts. What do […]
By Bafana Modise, National Spokesperson of South African Friends of Israel Every year on May 14, Israel commemorates Jerusalem Day, or Yom Yerushalayim, marking the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967 after the Six-Day War. For many around the world, it is a political anniversary. For Jews and Christians, however, the […]
Deuteronomy 7: 3, 8 We are never to be unevenly yoked with unbelievers because they will pollute us to their way of thinking and in their compromising outlook on life in general. John 15:16: “you did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go […]
A wondrous event is taking place signalling that we could be on the verge of the grand culmination of the ages. Whereas 2 000 years ago, on the Feast of Pentecost being celebrated this week, 3 000 Jews bowed the knee to Yeshua, their Messiah, there are now an estimated […]
I have known that the town of Potchefstroom carries layers of South African memory, but the extent of it only became clear to me two weekends ago. I was invited to be part of a reconciliation weekend between Matabele (or Ndebele) and Afrikaner communities, an event marked by prayer, repentance, […]