South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Sixty nations uniting churches, pastors and believers across the world are participating in the Baptize the World day on Sunday, which will see thousands of believers publicly declaring their faith in Jesus through water baptism. The organisers say the global event will feature a livestream from the Museum of the […]
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria has called for three days of national fasting and prayer from Friday May 22 to Sunday May 24 with the theme “The Consuming Fire” in view of insecurity, bloodshed, economic hardship, persecution, and other disturbing developments in the nation. According to a notice from Africa’s […]
John Mathuhle founding leader of political party Hope4SA has returned to focusing on his primary calling – reconciliation, he told Gateway News in an interview. He said that after sensing early last year that God was reminding him of his first calling, “which I had almost neglected because I was […]
Originally published in Christian Daily Governments in East Africa are increasingly turning to churches and religious institutions as partners in promoting morality, social stability and economic development, even as faith leaders continue to challenge state power on governance and human rights concerns. Recent statements from leaders in Tanzania and Uganda […]
Originally published in Charisma The internet expected another messy feud. Instead, God used a broken back, a parody video and an honest rebuke to help bring a worship leader back home. Cory Asbury, best known for the worship anthem Reckless Love, revealed this week that he spent the past five years running […]
Originally published in CBN Evangelist Franklin Graham held what’s being called the largest evangelistic event ever in the eastern European country of Belarus. The two-day “Festival of Hope” drew tens of thousands to the event in the capital city of Minsk. Graham preached to record-breaking crowds of nearly 31 000, […]
Originally published in Christian Today The World Council of Churches’ (WCC) general secretary, Rev Jerry Pillay has spoken of his deep concern at the Ebola outbreak that has hit the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). So far 131 people have been killed by the outbreak, which started in the […]
Originally published in CBN News A modern-day tent revival, nine years in the making, is on the move across the nation, complete with reports of record salvations and baptisms. Organisers of the Jesus Tent Revival movement say it’s shifting the nation’s spiritual landscape. It started back in 2019, during a powerful event […]
Former CRL Rights Commission Section 22 committee chairperson Professor Musa Xulu released a press statement this week in which he says state-security structures may be investigating Christians and organisations “opposing the CRL chairperson’s agenda”. Xulu, who resigned in January as chairperson of the Section 22 committee on Christian sector abuses, […]
Deuteronomy 7: 3, 8 We are never to be unevenly yoked with unbelievers because they will pollute us to their way of thinking and in their compromising outlook on life in general. John 15:16: “you did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go […]