South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Prayer initiative Up4SA — with the support of South African prayer networks — is once again calling on Christian communities throughout the country to join in prayer for an hour on Sunday February 26 2017. “We boldly trust for an even greater eagerness by Christians all across our nation to […]
Originally published in The Telegraph Church of England clergy have appeared to signal support for gay marriage after they rejected a bishops’ report which said that only a man and woman could marry in church. The report recommended that the bar on same-sex church marriages continue but that a more […]
Originally published in Charisma News Australian megachurch Hillsong is planting a church in Tel Aviv, Israel, according to an Instagram post from senior pastor Brian Houston. “Let me to be the first to tell you this is happening. Hillsong church is going to add a room to our church family […]
Influential pastor, revivalist and author, Bill Johnson launched his first-ever ministry trip in South Africa yesterday evening at the start of the keenly-awaited Kingdom Come South Africa Conference in Midrand, Johannesburg. Expectation was palpably high from the word go among the thousands of revival-hungry attendees – including church and ministry […]
Wives pray as husbands worship Just as the Lord made man to be the head of the family, leading its members, and woman to be the heart of the family, supplying the lifeblood essential for its members’ wellbeing, so the Mighty Men Conferences (MMCs) are aimed at men, but would […]
Last week a group of 34 senior church leaders from all the mainline and large independent churches of Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Despatch) spent three days at Carmel Retreat Centre near George, unpacking racism, privilege and prejudice. The leadership group felt it should get its house in […]
In October 2016, the CRL Rights Commission released its Report on the “commercialisation” of religion and abuse of people’s belief systems. The Report recommends the broad-scale regulation of religion in South Africa, including the compulsory registration and licensing (depending on doctrine) of all religious institutions and religious practitioners. The deadline […]
Originally published in Christian Concern [notice]Christian Concern’s Camilla Olim comments on how the pro-choice argument betrays women, discussing 18 personal accounts sent in to the BBC of women’s abortions.[/notice] With the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act and recent developments in the US, including the Women’s March, the March […]
Responding to the 20th anniversary of legalised abortion on demand in South Africa on February 1 2017, Christian pro-life activists have arranged demonstrations around the country on or close to that date. In Cape Town, Africa Christian Action held a march to parliament and a placard protest outside the gates […]
“It was a miracle,” said Pastor Zolile Dayimani at the encouraging number of people who attended a unique united prayer meeting in Daku Hall, Zwide, last Sunday (January 29 2017) despite being invited at very short notice. More than 50 pastors from different denominations who did not normally meet together […]