South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
SWEAT up in arms about campaign The Salvation Army wants South Africans to oppose human trafficking by participating in its “Cut It Out” campaign against sexual services advertisements in newspapers. The idea of the campaign, in which members of the public will cut sleazy sex industry ads out of newspapers […]
As yet another Friday night unveils itself in Central, Port Elizabeth, many young people flock to bars, night clubs and other places of entertainment in the area. But a certain group of young folk choose to walk a road less travelled. Gateway News met up with these remarkable young Christians […]
[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] Memory of pre-dawn encounter that captures root of lawlessness, moral decline It’s a cold winter’s morning in […]
Compiled from a report in PM News and agency reports At least 22 people were killed in a series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in a Christian section of Nigeria’s second largest city of Kano, yesterday. And sources close to the attack by two suicide bombers say the […]
Although I expected a lot more Christian men to turn up for the ‘Real Men March Against Rape & Violence of Women & Children’ on 16 March in CT, the event was a resounding success. More than a thousand men (and some women) marched to Parliament – worshipping God through […]
Major Christian church groups have launched a boycott of TopTV which wants to broadcast three pornographic television channels, says Family Policy Institute Director Errol Naidoo. Announcing the boycott on Saturday at a march outside Parliament in Cape Town against rape and violence against women and children, Naidoo said the church […]
Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, taking all his meals at the King’s table. He was lame in both feet. 2 Samuel 9:13 (MSG) There is a story in the Bible that is easy to overlook. It’s a story that no one seems to teach in Sunday school. Yet it’s a story […]
[notice]In this week’s Righteous Rant Pretoria dad MARTIN LABUSCHAGNE has his say on the burning issue of the right to life of unborn children. Gateway News invites you to email your rant to news@gatewaynews.co.za for possible publication in this new, occasional column where readers get to share what’s on their heart. […]
[notice]Gateway News reporter JOHANITA JORDAAN spoke to Martin Munene, a victim of a human smuggling scam. She also spoke to a Johannesburg church leader who provides spiritual and practical support to many traumatised victims of such scams.[/notice] Kenyan citizen Martin Munene found himself wondering the streets of Johannesburg, traumatised after […]
Originally published in Christian Post Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76 of Argentina is the new pope to succeed Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.Cardinal Jorge Mario. Bergoglio, who is the first non-European Roman Catholic Pope and the 266th pope of the Catholic Church, chose the papal name Francis. He has served as […]