South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 […]
[notice]It is common to hear Europe referred to as post-Christian and under threat of Islamisation. And so it is refreshing to hear about a major gospel wave that will be rolling across Scandinavia this weekend — building on an earlier wave of life that was started in Germany last year. […]
On Wednesday October 19 leaders from various national and local prayer networks gathered in Pretoria in the midst of social unrest, a struggling economy, a severe national drought, and other serious challenges that South Africans face, to talk about the way forward for the broader prayer movement in South Africa. As […]
Special Report by Miles Giljam, SA Christian Leadership Initiative (Sacli) This week on campus began in one of the best ways possible – united prayer. Christian pastors all over the nation gathered at their local campus on Monday morning to pray and engage with the university communities. This was an […]
While on campus this week as part of a Christian ministry presence, I witnessed a power play when students supporting free higher education withstood management of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) and prevented them from accessing the administration block and restarting the academic program. It took police, who were there […]