South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Five South African Christian artists, Retief Burger, Stella, Ruan Josh, Jo Britton (Jolani Fourie) and Brian O’Neill joined forces to create a song, The Calling, to raise awareness of abandoned babies. The song was written by Jo Britton who was deeply touched and moved after hearing the story of an […]
Episode 5 in a weekly series in which music industry personality and Worship South Africa exco member Julita Kok reports back on a recent SA road trip in which she handed the steering wheel over to Jesus There is a huge difference between reading about God and His character in […]
After 16 years of producing TV programmes and an extensive range of highly impactful audio visual content for farmer evangelist Angus Buchan, Shalom Ministries executive producer George Carpenter — who is also a spiritual son of Uncle Angus — is relocating to the United Kingdom in response to God’s calling. […]
Originally published in Times Live The South African Council of Churches (SACC) has criticised former president Jacob Zuma’s decision not to co-operate with the commission of inquiry into state capture, in defiance of a ruling by the Constitutional Court. The council said in a statement on Thursday it was deeply […]
Originally published in Lifesite News In a peculiar reversal of roles, the Catholic president of Tanzania has advised the nation to trust in God when it comes to fears of COVID-19, while a number of bishops in the East African country have taken a different approach, urging people to adhere […]
Originally published in Christian Today More translations of the New Testament were completed in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, than in any other year, according to Wycliffe Associates. The Bible translation ministry said that translators completed the New Testament in 141 languages last year despite the challenges of […]
Originally published in CBN News CBN News has acquired security camera footage from Myanmar capturing the moment military personnel escorted a former political prisoner from his home. It’s the latest arrest of senior politicians and others including the country’s de facto leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu […]
Originally published in CBN News Islamic terrorists are launching violent attacks against people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Central Africa as innocent men, women, and children are being killed almost daily. In the past month, more than 100 people were murdered, and a majority of them were […]
Garth Japhet, a South African medical doctor and leading social-change entrepreneur who believes stories are the medicine that bring most healing has written a book Like Water is for Fish in which he demonstrates the power of story through sharing his own story and those of interesting people he has […]
Jericho Walls International Prayer Network (JWIPN) is calling for a campaign of seven weeks of day/night prayer from February 15 as an unprecedented wave of 24/7 prayer is still continuing in South Africa after 10 months of lockdown, says Daniël Brink of JWIPN. “More than 56 networks (groups of churches […]