South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Despite serious concerns expressed by the South African faith community, the CRL Rights Commission is heading to parliament today (Tuesday June 27) to present their final report on the “Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of People’s Belief Systems” to several portfolio committees, says Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) in […]
The annual Bonnaroo music festival in an open field in Manchester, Tennessee, draws tens of thousands of people from all of the US for four days of music, drugs, drunkenness and debauchery, says Larry Tomczak, in an article in Charisma News. Not exactly the sort of place for Christians to […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen For many years, Diane was a New Age teacher. From her perspective, Christanity was archaic and irrelevant. She was very confident in her beliefs and enjoyed encouraging others along the same path. All this despite the fact that she was regularly tormented by a spiritual […]
Originally published in Agenzia Fides Zambia is likely to head towards dictatorship, says the joint statement of the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) and the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) — that is to say the bodies that represent the majority of […]
About 250 Christian dance enthusiasts of all ages, from all over South Africa are expected to take part in the 7th national Christian Dance Fellowship SA conference in Cape Town from Wednesday July 19 to Saturday July 22. The theme of the conference is “From the Inside Out” and dances […]
A campaign has been launched to get 10 000 churches to call on parliamentarians to vote with their consciences when a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma is debated in parliament later this year. The campaign is backed by the Save South Africa campaign, in partnership with The Evangelical […]
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to participate and represent South Africa at the Global Convention on Life, Family and Honour in Seoul, South Korea. The Convention, which was convened and financially covered by the Body of Christ in South Korea, brought together Christian advocates from around the world […]
South Africa was saved at the cross of Jesus — where enemies are reconciled to one another (Ephesians 2:14-16) — when threatened by civil war at the time of the transfer of power to majority rule in the early 1990s. This is the claim of a former South African Navy […]
Sophie is a South African working mom who recently became a Christian. But her abusive, gangster ex-boyfriend continues to disrupt and endanger her life. She says her faith is helping her to fight back. But it is hard. This is her story. It’s a reality too many South African women […]
“Just as King David refused to rest until the Ark of the Covenant was restored to Jerusalem, in the same way, we in the Eastern Cape will not rest until the ‘Cross of Hope’ is restored after the sweeping fires that raged at Van Stadens in June 2017.” So says […]