South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The South African Cabinet has ignored the advice of numerous stakeholders and NGOs and approved a new, controversial National Drug Master Plan (NDMP) that promotes the flawed philosophy of ‘harm reduction’, says Doctors For Life (DFL), in a media release. DFL says the approval of the plan on June 26, […]
Abortion clinic chain Marie Stopes, in partnership with tertiary institutions and the Department of Health, is launching a campaign aimed at ‘indoctrinating schools, colleges and universities about sexuality, contraceptives and abortion under the auspices of “reproductive health”,’ reports Africa Christian Action (ACA). Leader of Marie Stopes’ Blue Light Campaign, Ndi Mumbengegwi, […]
[notice]DIANNE STEVEN looks at an aspect of abortion that receives scant attention. How does it affect men? Why are men so silent about their experiences with abortion? What if the silence was broken?[/notice] More than 2,9 million * babies have been aborted in South Africa over the past five years […]
Originally published in Charisma News Scientists in Oregon say that they have created cloned human embryos, and then destroyed the embryos to extract embryonic stem cells. The cloning technique is essentially the same one used to create Dolly the cloned sheep, with some modifications to make cloning work using human […]
Unashamedly Ethical health professionals community launched Helen Zille, the Premier of the Western Cape, came face to face with the taxi leaders she once clashed with. She reminisced about the last time she and the taxi leaders met. “Do you remember when I came to Nyanga how I had […]
Originally published in Charisma News Pornography and sexual promiscuity are destroying a generation of young people in England according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) which reports that from 2009 to 2012 more than 5 000 sexual assaults in England involved a child perpetrator […]
With the recent buzz around Valentines Day, the notion of love has been a topical subject in most communities, driven of course by the commercial sentiment behind February 14. A Gateway News correspondent in Durban has however come across a 9-year-old cancer patient’s story that challenges Christians to apply love […]
Recent scientific evidence about the brain and its development provide compelling grounds for turning down TopTV’s application to broadcast pornography in South Africa, says Doctors For Life (DFL). DFL’s scientific objections to porn on television are spelled out in a written submission to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa […]
Prayers were answered yesterday when a 103-year-old, Durban, Christian-run hospital that has the biggest HIV Aids programme in South Africa was given a new lease of life, two weeks after announcing it had to close down because of lack of funding. In a welcome media announcement KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health, […]
At some point in the past year, the United States experienced its 55 millionth legal abortion — a tragic number that is far more than the combined US death count of every American war since the nation’s founding. The total spans 40 years, beginning with the 1973 Roe v. Wade […]