South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The 2017 Global Leadership Summit (GLS) kicks off in Johannesburg tomorrow in the first of a series of two-day leadership training events that is expected to be attended by 13 000 leaders in South Africa over the next month. There will be 21 events in 18 cities and towns, starting […]
About 80 people gathered at the Steenbras Dam lookout point last Sunday evening to worship God and declare His sovereignty over the Cape and South Africa, reports Libby Norton from one of the mountain-top worship events around Cape Town that launched the 40 days of worship campaign from September 20 […]
Two significant strategic prayer days — independently called by God in the light of wickedness in the nation — will be taking place at the Union Buildings in Pretoria within days of each other, on Sunday October 1 and Tuesday October 3. Intercessors from around South Africa will join in […]
Senior leaders of churches in Nelson Mandela Bay met in the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Tuesday to urgently address the breakdown in governance in the metro where a council meeting could not be held last Thursday because of a lack of a quorum. The church leaders reminded councillors of […]
The differences between churches and the CRL Rights Commission reached a new level last weekend when the Weekend Post newspaper led with a report on threats by major churches in the Eastern Cape to campaign against political parties which support the CRL’s religious regulation proposals. Freedom of Religion SA, which […]
Thousands of Christians from across Africa and the world are expected to converge in Bloemfontein on October 13 and 14 for the first Africa Convergence Conference. The conference aims to share a prophetic message of spiritual guidance and inspiration relating to Africa as a continent of refuge, and aims to […]
A vision during a near-death experience during heart surgery in 2004 impacted the course of a Port Elizabeth church leader’s ministry on two significant fronts. Doctors lost him on three occasions during a quadruple heart bypass operation and in that time he experienced entering another realm where Jesus spoke to […]
The Church in South Africa needs to confess and repent to God for its sins which have resulted in the current dire state of affairs in the nation, says Intercessors For South Africa (IFSA) in a resolution released at its consultative conference in Bloemfontein from September 14 to 16. The […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Six days after a Pakistani Christian was sentenced to death for blasphemy, the young man’s lawyer says there was insufficient evidence against his client and that the police failed to investigate the matter properly. Nadeem Masih, 24, from the Yaqoobabad area of the religiously […]
Columnist Jon Qwelane has applied to the Johannesburg High Court (sitting as Equality Court) for leave to appeal against Judge Moshidi’s judgment on August 18. The judgment declared Qwelane’s statements (in the article that appeared in the Sunday Sun under the heading “Call me names, but gay is not okay”) […]