Originally published in Christian Today A huge slogan painted on a bare Mexican hillside is in the running for no less than four Guinness World Records, according to Evangelical Focus. The Hill of the Bible was created in 1987 as a project of the evangelical churches of Cuidad Juarez, the […]
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Euthanasia activist Sean Davison may face multiple murder charges
Euthanasia activist Sean Davison might face multiple murder charges, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday. The founder of euthanasia advocacy group Dignity SA was in court on a charge of premeditated murder in connection with the death of Anrich Burger in Cape Town in 2013 in an alleged assisted suicide […]
Kenyan worship leader one of two killed for failing to say Islamic prayer of faith
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14 September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its […]
Conference considers how to love those struggling with same sex attraction
Experts in various different fields from all over South Africa spoke at the Learning to Love Conference in Durbanville, Cape Town last Saturday, in an event aimed at equipping the church to better love people struggling with same-sex attraction. Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, the Legal Counsel of Freedom of Religion South […]
Racism, superiority and hatred — Afrika Mhlophe
In some of my talks on culture and diversity I am sometimes asked the question: “Can black people be racist?” I have come to learn that this question is loaded and also based on a narrow definition of racism as simply about “superiority”. Racial superiority is a weakness of Western […]
Finding new themes for congregational singing — Hugh Wetmore
Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. The Bible is one of the most comprehensive books ever compiled! And God had the major hand in this compilation. God wants His pastors to preach […]
PROPHETIC ENCOURAGEMENT: The season for her delivery has come
Clementia Pae shares a prophetic word for 2018 that God gave her in December last year — and encourages believers to stand in faith on the word now. Is anything too difficult or too wonderful for the Lord? At the appointed time, when the season [for her delivery] comes, I […]
The beauty of Zion: reclaiming the noble description of God’s holy city — Charles Gardner
Gateway News UK correspondent Charles Gardner sets the record straight on Zionism. As Jews across Europe come under increasing fire, and the scandal of anti-Semitism continues to wreak havoc in Britain’s Labour Party, there is an ever-present danger of misunderstanding as to what it’s all about. Why have Jews, and […]
Constitutional Court to hear FOR SA on corporal punishment at home
On Thursday, November 28 the Constitutional Court will hear Freedom of Religion South Africa’s (FOR SA’s) application for leave to appeal a High Court judgment last year which declared parents’ historic common law defence of “moderate and reasonable chastisement” to be unconstitutional. “While FOR SA is utterly opposed to any […]
SA media companies respond magnificently to ‘It’s Time Pretoria’ billboard challenge
Former Springbok rugby player and media company boss Warren Brosnihan issued a challenge last week to media and billboard companies to get behind the It’s Time Pretoria event on October 27 by sponsoring media space for what is expected to be the biggest prayer gathering ever seen in South Africa. […]