South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The Church in general, responded with great displeasure and frustration during the implementation of Covid-19 regulations by the government which restricted normal Church gatherings and operations. The concerns have been fully warranted on the part of the Church especially considering the urgent need and importance to protect religious freedoms which […]
In the previous two Worship Columns, we have surveyed the changes in our worship services in the course of a lifetime. Some changes are neutral, other are harmful. This month we celebrate the positive changes that have been taking place. Let’s identify some contemporary changes that are positively healthy, for […]
Advocate Nadene Badenhorst legal counsel for Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) probes the issue of vaccine mandates and freedom of religion *Note: As an organisation, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) is not for, or against, vaccination but believes it is the right of every individual to choose for […]
Messianic claims are big talking point at winter feast It may surprise many to learn that Hanukkah, the movable eight-day Jewish festival being celebrated this year from Sunday, is actually about the coming of the Messiah. Appropriately enough, therefore, it falls around Christmas each year, sometimes even coinciding. The strength […]
By Open Doors Souther Africa With World Children’s Day being celebrated on November 20 to commemorate the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the United Nations in 1959, the spotlight falls again on children worldwide and improving children’s welfare. Therefore, it is shocking to learn that the persecution […]
Even as I sit down in my prayer room and write this letter, we are preparing to go on a trip to an Eastern Cape Karoo area that has been ravaged with drought for a long, long time. We thank God for the rain that has fallen on the Northern […]
In my last column I traced the changes that have taken place in the Church’s worship services. For the most part these were neutral’ changes. They were more superficial cultural changes that did not affect the deeper levels of our Christian being. We observed movements from formal liturgies to freer […]
Dr Isak Burger, former president of the AFM Church of SA, sent his thoughts on this hot issue to Gateway News. Below is a translation of his article which is written in Afrikaans. You can read the Afrifkaans version here The kneeling and clenched fists at the T20 World Cup […]
In the last episode missionary Lydia Venter shared how God brought good out of a brutal attack on them. But there were also darker, lingering consequences of the attack that had to be faced and overcome, she writes in this week’s episode For the first month or two after our […]
This year will be remembered in my family, as I am sure in yours, for many reasons, some of them wonderful highlights to our family’s story, others we would sooner forget. Then there are those moments that have proven tricky to navigate while still maintaining a culture of honour and […]