International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) South Africa national director Vivienne Myburgh handed over a collection of personal messages of support from SA Christians to former chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at his home in Mafikeng last Sunday. She told Gateway News that the handover was a sequel to a campaign in […]
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How a missionary used Bitcoin to transform a town, then a nation
By Jimmy Song — Originally published in The Christian Post A few years ago, a missionary decided to do a small and seemingly inconsequential experiment in El Zonte, a beach town in El Salvador. The plan was to get the community to adopt Bitcoin so that they wouldn’t have to […]
FOR SA asks CRL to intervene in draft health regulations as Church balks at ‘vaccine mandate’
Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) has requested the Cultural, Religious and Linguistics (CRL) Rights Commission to assist the religious community by intervening in its conflict with the government over controversial draft health regulations which the state wants to introduce in place of the state of disaster which was […]
Interim state of disaster regulations are ‘ultra vires’, says FOR SA
Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) says it celebrates the termination of the national state of disaster but views Cogta minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s continued regulation of society using the Disaster Management Act as ultra vires. The government terminated the state of disaster at midnight last night but said […]
Faith for the season — Vivienne Solomons
In the past, when I thought of “having faith’, I thought of it in general terms, for my life, as a whole. I didn’t think of faith in a particular context. Either I had faith, or I didn’t. It is, however, possible to be “full of faith” in a particular […]
Online platforms overwhelmed as citizens reject bid to extend disaster rule through health regulations
More than 160 000 people had already sent submissions on controversial draft health regulations through the Dear South Africa website by last night, said Rob Hutchinson, managing director of the public participation platform during a Zoom meeting. He told the meeting last night that the system, which at the time […]
Human traffickers reportedly pose as pastors on Ukrainian Border
Originally published in CBN News “It was pure chaos.” That’s how Natasha Boom, Orphan’s Promise’s regional manager for Europe, described the Polish border, where women, children, and families continue to flee following Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. From traumatised kids screaming to allegations that human traffickers are posing as pastors and trying to […]
Our big God adventure: episode 16 – “… and you will dream dreams and see visions (part 1)
Lydia Venter shares a testimony from the mission field in Kenya of what can happen when God’s people act on dreams He gives them When menopause hit because of an early hysterectomy, my sleep became greatly affected. One night during the course of 2012, I suddenly woke up at 2am. […]
Wounded warriors lead charge in health-focused prayer connect
Special report by Dr Singeziwe Sibeko, a senior researcher at Stellenbosch University Contextually “prayer connect” is an assembly of various calibres of prayer warriors and intercessors from different denominations and organisations, levels of society, ages and from across the borders. These prayer connect meetings are directly responsive to pressing, current […]
Miracle on camera at media expo — Lindy-Ann Hopley
Something was happening on the expo floor of the largest gathering of Christian communicators with lights, camera and God-action! Just before an interview was about to take place with myself, Lindy-Ann Hopley at the NRB (National Religious Broadcasters Convention) in Nashville, Tennessee at the TUVU booth — this happened: [see […]