South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
On June 16 we celebrated the International Day of the African Child — a day that was declared by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now called the African Union, in 1991 in commemoration of the Soweto uprising of June 1976. The youth challengeWith 60% of its 1.25 billion people […]
Multiple SAMA winning group, We Will Worshi have released Difela an EP consisting of four modern-day hymns, with standout tracks Grace Alone and Pholoso featuring multi-platinum selling South African Gospel singer Lebo Sekgobela. Using the structure of hymns, the songwriters Langa Mbonambi, Ndumiso Manana, Lesego Lebese and Themba Ntuli, say […]
Gansbaai has begun a journey in which people of all races and ages are committed to working together to eradicate crime and poverty and transform the community, says Chris Swart, a pioneer of Project South Africa in the Western Cape coastal town. Chris believes that over the past few years […]
The attack on Chief Justice Mogoeng’s right to express his Christian views on Israel is not new but a continuation of an ancient battle spoken about in Psalm 83 which says that those who hate God will attack the very people of God, said Vivienne Myburgh, national director of the […]
How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting you? How is it making you feel? Are you feeling weak? Maybe even your very character and personality is taking a pounding at this time. Are you maybe struggling to get back in the race? I think many, many people can identify with that […]
Dozens of Evangelical Christians came together on Thursday for the annual Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in the Holy City only days after a prominent Christian leader openly threatened to eradicate Evangelical support for the Jewish state because he did not like the results of the Israeli election. The breakfast took place at the […]
This Youth Day on June 16, 22 church leaders from across Nelson Mandela Bay will each pray over the city from the City Hall Square between 7am and 7pm. Prayer topics are:1. The end of the Covid Epidemic2. Rain3. Revival among the Youth 4. The scourge of Crime to End5. […]
One South Africa Movement (OSA) today disclosed the identity of 10 municipalities, which collectively are home to more than 2.1 million citizens, in which it will support independent candidates and community-led independent organisations in the local government elections on October 27. In a media statement released exactly a year after […]
Originally published in NGKOK.co.za “Unload the corrupt from society, send them in peace to jail. They must do so freely. And tell them not to play a Samson on us by bringing the pillars of society down en route to jail, ” Rev Frank Chikane, former director-general of the presidency […]
By Janet Brann-Hollis and Dawn Barkhuizen While it is fashionable in some quarters to vilify Israel, those who draw parallels between it and apartheid South Africa ignore thousands of centuries of history as well as more recent pertinent facts. They also ignore the command in Scripture for believers to pray […]