South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Does God exist? This was a question for a debate that took place last week at Nelson Mandela University. This unprecedented event was a collaborative effort between some churches in Port Elizabeth and Ratio Christi (Latin for ‘The Reason of Christ’) — a global movement that equips university students and […]
Doctors for Life appeals for financial support to fight legal battle to protect youth, society On Monday (July 31 2017) the constitutionality of South Africa’s dagga legislation will be on trial in a major court case which is expected to run for most of August and eventually go all the […]
The University of Cape Town (UCT) recently issued a draft “Inclusivity policy for Sexual Orientation”, which is likely to set the trend for other universities and colleges (and potentially also, schools) in South Africa on the issue of human sexuality and gender identity. While the policy is presented as an […]
South Africans were too broken to rebuild the nation, God showed Apostle Linda Gobodo, as she pondered why people throughout the nation seemed despondent and unresponsive to business opportunities presented to them by her Vuka Africa Foundation. The Lord then gave her an instruction to develop a booklet with 100 scriptures […]
A recommendation that new laws be introduced to enforce registration of pastors and ministers is overkill and a response that one would expect more from a totalitarian state than a constitutional democracy”, said Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town and President of the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC). He […]
This is the story of the “miracle safari” – a recent 4 200km mission-impossible road trek from Johannesburg to Mombasa, to meet a tight business deadline. But, to appreciate this prayer-powered story, we need to step back more than 40 years to the day that Steve Kalue was born in […]
Originally published in Christianity Today A day after a Religion News Service interview portrayed retired pastor and author Eugene Peterson as shifting to endorse same-sex marriage, the evangelical leader retracted his comment and upheld the traditional Christian stance instead. “To clarify, I affirm a biblical view of marriage: one man […]
Religious communities should take up an invitation by a parliamentary committee to comment on a report calling for regulation of religion in South Africa, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in an urgent update emailed to its constituents today. If religious leaders do not respond promptly to the CRL […]
In the book of Esther, God shows that He created each one of us for a specific purpose, calling us to act with courage and boldness in a specific time. Rachel Katlego Mathebe, the speaker of the City of Tshwane council is a devoted Christian who makes no apologies for her […]
Originally published in cnsnews.com The values that bind America and Europe together – freedom, faith and family — are threatened from the outside by common enemies and from the inside by bureaucracy, President Donald Trump told a cheering crowd of Poles in Warsaw on Thursday. “The fundamental question of our […]