By Reverend Nceba Dladla The Eastern Cape Diocese of the African Catholic Church (ACC) has a new Cathedral Church. An official opening of St Thomas Parish under Reverend Xhanti Busakwe in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, was done last Sunday, April 10. It coincided with the church’s 2016 Provincial Clergy Synod with was […]
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The problem is bigger than Zuma — it is about all of us
The Constitutional Court finding against President Jacob Zuma on the Nkandla matter is generating a lot of talk and will no doubt continue to do so for some time to come. The judgment was clear and unequivocal regarding Zuma’s failure to fully uphold the country’s constitution and it comes on […]
PE churchmen support plan to oust Zuma, declare war on corruption
Senior church leaders in Port Elizabeth today declared their support of a civil society mass action campaign that was launched on the steps of the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg this week to oust President Jacob Zuma following a damning Constitutional Court ruling against him last week and the failure of […]
AZUSA NOW — 120 000 gathering at LA stadium on Saturday expecting Holy Spirit outpouring
AZUSA SA gathering in Johannesburg; GOD TV broadcasting live from USA Expectations are high for a powerful, fresh move of God when about 120 000 revival-hungry Christians gather at the Los Angeles Memorial Colisseum stadium on Saturday (April 9, 2016) for Azusa Now — a 15 hours session of “unity, […]
KMMC ‘early bird’ walking to die to self and live to Christ
Abe de Beer is the first person to arrive in Middelburg for the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2016. He arrived a month early, having started out two-and-a-half months ago from Secunda in Mpumalanga on a journey on foot through the country “in pursuit of the Father’s voice”. Abe has walked […]
Pakistan promises no change to blasphemy laws in deal with hardline Islamists
Originally published in Christian Today Pakistan’s infamous blasphemy laws will not be changed after a deal between government and hardline Islamists on Wednesday afternoon. The settlement promised that prisoners convicted of blasphemy, which carries the death penalty in Pakistan, will be shown no leniency. The negotiation marked the end of […]
Church appeals SAHRC’s Report on spanking in the home
On Wednesday, March 30, Joshua Generation Church delivered its appeal against the findings and recommendations of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in ‘the spanking case’, to the SAHRC. The Church’s appeal follows a finding by the SAHRC in January 2016, that spanking in the home violates children’s and […]
Radio set to broaden access to information at KMMC
Radio broadcasts are set to add a new dimension to the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2016 (KMMC 2016). In the past KMMC has had access to radio frequencies to broadcast translations of the speakers’ messages from Afrikaans to English and isiXhosa or visa-versa. However, this year plans are to expand […]
PE Christian artist invited to London
Port Elizabeth Christian ceramic artist, Bentley van Wyk, has been invited to exhibit his work on an international platform at the well-known Tanya Baxter Contemporary Gallery in Chelsea, London. The proud alumni of NMMU School of Design, who also exhibited his work at the 2015 Emerging Design Indaba in Cape Town, […]