A Pietermaritzburg couple who started an online petition campaign to stop porn on e.tv hope to have 5 000 signatures by Monday when they will take on e.tv in a tribunal before the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA). Rene and Mark Morcom, founders of Christian-based child welfare organisation, […]
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This week’s Christian news and commentary
Dear Friend This week we carried a reports about an inspiring ministry to the poor in Kleinskool, Port Elizabeth and a PE family’s desperate campaigning to raise funds for their daughter to have surgery in the US. We also reported on Angus Buchan’s big gospel outreach in Northern Ireland today […]
Nelson Mandela Bay churches speak out on need to protect women and children
The church, which has a responsibility to support family life, is horrified by the continuous onslaught on the dignity of women in South Africa, of which e.tv’s “Naked News” is the most recent example, says the Nelson Mandela Bay Consultation of Christian Churches (NMBCCC). The programme, in which women strip […]
Obama and Israel: face up to it
By Dr Neil Dobro – Originally published in Charisma News By calling for a “contiguous” Arab state with a border with Jordan, Obama ruled out an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley. This valley is the eastern corridor through which Arab armies marched into Jerusalem in the wars of 1948 […]
What are you afraid of?
Book review by Angela Mould ROLLING THUNDER by Mark Mynheir – Book 1 in The Truth Chaser Series. Category: Christian Suspense Novel Are you totally afraid of thunder and lightning? Does it leave you absolutely paralysed? Sometimes our fears are just irrational but sometimes they are because of childhood traumas […]
40 dae van persoonlike transformasie
Scot McKnight, Nuwe Testamentikus en professor in religious studies aan North Park Universiteit in Chicago, is ook ’n geesdriftige dissipel van Jesus en ’n blogger van formaat. Scot is bekend vir The Jesus Creed waarin hy op ’n pakkende manier skryf oor die sentrale gebod : om God bo alles […]
Africa Day and the Christian community
[notice]Yesterday (May 25) was Africa Day, a day that commemorates the founding of the Organisation Of African Unity on May 25, 1963. Today Africa Day is viewed by many as a day to celebrate African Unity. Port Elizabeth pastor Afrika Mhlope reflects on this day and other current […]
Books donated to pilot schools to boost reading performance
Literacy and numeracy support materials were donated to nine schools in the Port Elizabeth district of the Department of Education (DoE) this week to assist their Grades 1–3 teachers with the implementation of the Foundations for Learning campaign. These schools are part of a circuit team pilot project which is […]
Christian Woman in Darfur, Sudan arrested for evangelizing
Sudanese National Security Intelligence and Security Service agents have arrested a Christian woman in a Darfur camp for displaced people, accusing her of converting Muslims to Christianity, said sources who fear she is being tortured, Compass News Direct reported yesterday. At the same time, in Khartoum a Christian mother of […]
Kleinskool mission is “lighthouse” in the midst of despair
For the past 21 years feisty missionaries Boet and Annatjie Walker have been preaching the gospel, feeding the hungry, and uplifting the poor in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth. Now both approaching 70-years-old they are putting their energies into starting new upliftment projects at their Jesus is Lord Ministries […]