South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in The Christian Post WATCH: ‘Hannelie’, testimony of South African missionary, produced by Voice of the Martyrs for International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church As Christians from around the world are facing persecution in unprecedented numbers, churches and Christian organisations will hold special prayers for the […]
While it is disturbed by apparent abuses within religious communities, the cure proposed by the CRL Rights Commission — to regulate religious bodies and licence religious practitioners — would be a thousand times worse than the described disease, says the Christian Citizenship Network of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa. Calling on the commission […]
Prayer heals the broken heart [notice]Wenda Royster of Baltimore, United States launched a global 24/7 prayer ministry after she was ministered to through prayer during tough times. Now she is looking for South Africans to join the network by taking on shifts of an hour or half an hour — […]
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit’, says the Lord Almighty (Zechariah 4:6) There is both excitement and anxiety concerning the Sacred Assembly, according to Reverend Moss Ntlha, general secretary of the Evangelical Alliance of South Africa and convenor of the committee of Pastors facilitating mobilisation for […]
Last week we reported on a fired-up outreach group’s fruitful visit to a Johannesburg hospital. Well it seems when the fire of God is blazing in believers’ hearts fruitful outreach becomes natural. Duan van Schalkwyk who led the hospital visit tells Gateway News that yesterday he presented the gospel to […]
See Opinion by Ron Steele This week has seen the State proposing two pieces of legislation which arguably pose one of the greatest threats to religious freedom (including the autonomy of the Church to govern her own affairs) and free speech in South Africa yet! If we do not take […]
On Wednesday (October 26 2016), a day when a student march to parliament ended in violent mayhem after some of the students and police clashed, these University of Stellenbosch students stood on a mountain and prayed life into their campus and town below. The university, about 50km away from troubled campuses […]
Conflict exposes need for discipleship and unity among Christian students Hundreds of students, parents and Christian leaders worshiped God together and prayed together at a joyful, Spirit-filled prayer service at NMMU (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) in Port Elizabeth on Sunday night. For a few precious hours the rainbow nation — […]
In a country that seems to be stumbling from one political crisis to another educational emergency via an additional economic crunch that are all man-made, the message that “South Africa does not need a new government or a new economy, but Christ,” cuts through the clutter of the nation’s challenges […]
Watch, share and engage society with a Christian perspective This week I decided to share a video of a talk I did at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on March 18 2016. The subject I spoke on was ‘Black Pain, White Guilt, and Issues of Identity’ and it was […]