South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Every day of 2012 intercessors will spend 30 minutes to half an hour at the Union Buildings, Pretoria, praying for the South African government. At least that is the ambitious goal of a prayer team known as the Pretoria Prayer Force (PPF) which is mobilising local Christians to participate in […]
[notice]Mieneke van der Merwe joined a group of pro-life supporters who gathered in Central Cape Town yesterday to mark the National Day of Repentance — the 15th anniversary of abortion on demand legislation in South Africa.[/notice] ABORTION ON DEMAND On February 1, 1997, against the will of most South Africans, […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News A Christian convert has been sentenced to two years in prison by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Leila Mohammadi received the sentence after spending five months in the infamous Evin prison, according to Mohabat News service. Mohammadi was convicted of “broad anti-Islamic propaganda, deceiving […]
More than 100 young people marched through the Pietermaritzburg city centre on Saturday (January 28) in a forerunner to a citywide mission that will celebrate 50 years of ministry by African Enterprise (AE) on the African continent. AE founder Michael Cassidy’s vision to “evangelise the cities of Africa through word […]
Media Village Productions, a Cape Town based production company, has sent a team to California and Hong Kong to produce documentary stories that speak of the redemptive power of God. Commissioned by Harvest Evangelism, the team has finished their first story about the Valley Christian School (VCS), currently said to […]
[notice]Andre Viljoen interviews theologian, pastor and author, Dave Doveton, about his book The Way of Balaam which is reviewed in our books section. Doveton believes God called him to write the book and to a mission of alerting Christian leaders to an old evil that poses a present danger to […]
TopTV CEO Vino Govender is getting axed because of his misguided porn plans and slow growth in subscriber numbers, reports TV writer Thinus Ferreira. Govender outraged South Africans in early December when he backtracked on a 2010 pledge that TopTV would adhere to Christian family values and would not broadcast […]
By Thaddeus Baklinski — Originally published in LifeStiteNews.Com 1.35 million condoms given out prior to celebrations put on by South Africa’s governing political party, the African National Congress, have been recalled due to complaints that the locally made prophylactics were defective. Spokesman Jabu Mbalula of the health department of the […]
Book Review by Lawrie Wilmot THE WAY OF BALAAM: FALSE TEACHERS AND THE REAPPEARANCE OF ANCIENT GNOSTIC BELIEFS by Dave Doveton My review presumes that the reader has both Biblical and theological knowledge: I therefore do not go into overly lengthy explanations of some of the terms in this […]
Citizens opposed to the Protection of State Information Bill, otherwise known as the Secrecy Bill, are strongly encouraged to attend public hearings in their area, the Parliamentary Liaision Office (CPLO) of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference urges in a newsletter today. After being approved – by 229 votes against […]