Lesedi Community Centre in Heidelberg, Gauteng is doing a remarkable job of uplifting destitute people and uniting citizens in becoming the answer to local challenges. Andre Viljoen spoke to the centre manager Jaco Kritzinger When Jaco Kritzinger suddenly lost his senior corporate management job during a company restructuring in 2018 […]
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Christian leader in Sudan detained, blindfolded and beaten, sources say
Originally published in Christian Headlines A Christian leader in Sudan was detained and beaten last Friday for speaking out against the burning of a church building, sources said. Masked men believed to be national security personnel seized Osama Saeed Kodi, chairman of the Christian Youth Union of Al Jazirah state, […]
Rev Frank Chikane criticised over anti-Israel remarks
South African Council of Churches vice president and senior World Council of Churches official, Rev Frank Chikane is at the centre of a media storm over “incendiary” anti-Israel remarks he made during a Zoom webinar on February 6. In his contribution to a webinar to launch a documentary about the […]
A new creation: Jesus brings hope after years of depression
Jesus brings ‘amazing sense of hope’ after years of depression After years of struggling with depression, Steph Petrou felt like “a new creation” when Jesus came into her life. “I honestly feel like a completely new creation. He has given me an amazing sense of hope that I’d never experienced […]
TRUE STORY: The girls on the train track — Mark Roberts
It was early winter and the sun was already beginning to set as the two teenage girls marched along the railway tracks. Debbie, aged 14 and Stacy aged 16 were running away from the reformatory school in town. Most girls hated the place. It was a school where young problem […]
Makgoba calls for SA government intervention in growing ethnic crisis in Ethiopia
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has called on South African faith groups and civil society lobbies to press the SA government to intervene in a Ethiopia where the government is accused of committing war crimes against the people of the northern province of Tigray. Warning that what […]
Don’t be pulled out of line — Vuyokazi Matu
I’m not sure who needs to hear this today. The Lord is impressing in my heart these words…… Do not worry about what others think, say, assume and conclude.We are in a moment of historical shift on the earth. Things are not normal. Open your eyes as a watchman and […]
Christians must ‘vaccinate’ others against virus of antisemitism
By David R. Parsons, ICEJ Vice President and Senior Spokesman During the last week of January the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations on the anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 1945. One year ago, Yad Vashem […]
Pioneering actress Cicely Tyson, 96, remembered for talent, activism, love for God
Neziswa Kanju pays tribute to the African American matriarch of screen and stage who recently died just two days before her autobiography was released “Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed […]
Gender bending laws threaten long imprisonment for challenging self-identity
By Charles Gardner, UK correspondent We would do well to heed a warning from Down Under of the potential for further restrictions on our religious and other liberties. The transgender debate – and in particular the “conversion therapy” issue – has already seen bizarre new laws introduced in Australia that […]