South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Anglican Communion News Service The Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, the Right Revd Dr Steve Moreo, has warned that the high levels of poverty in South Africa pose a great danger to the country. “This country is sitting on a powder keg of hopelessness,” he said, citing the figures […]
President JF Kennedy once remarked that ‘when written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis; is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.’ Every crisis, is, at the same time, an opportunity. Listening to CNN and the reports on Hurricane Irma is the example of a both […]
According to AGRI SA, “2015 was declared the driest year in South Africa, in over a century.” Farming is a long-term investment, therefore it is understandable how recovering from a drought, particularly one of significant proportions, is no quick fix. Farmers who experienced hardship in 2015 continue to struggle as […]
Originally published in Fox News Everyone is pitching in to clean up Florida after Hurricane Irma. That now includes a chainsaw-wielding nun. Sister Margaret Ann of Archbishop Coleman F Carroll High School in southwest Miami-Dade County decided to help out by cutting down a fallen tree in a full habit and […]
The British-based Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is channelling funding to Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town medical faculty to promote abortion amongst doctors and nurses. This pro-abortion programme, titled Leading Safe Choices (LSC), aims to desensitise doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to the reality […]
Pastor Ddiba Assadi leads a vibrant church in Kampala, Uganda and is one of the leaders at the centre of an amazing move of God in the city. This is his incredible testimony. In 1985, at the age of 12, Ddiba Assadi and his elder sister visited a church in […]
Churches and ministries afilliated to the Nelson Mandela Bay’ Switched On alliance are hard at work preparing for the Act1v8 (Activate) missions conference which will be hosted at various Port Elizabeth churches from Friday September 15 to Sunday September 17. Switched On, which was birthed during a citywide evangelism outreach […]
Never before has there been such a great need for pro-lifers to stand together regardless of their various affiliations, say the organisers of the National Alliance for Life (NAL) March for Life in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban, on Sunday October 1. NAL Conference 2017 Since February 1997 more than 1.2-million babies […]
A monthly column by farmer, preacher and writer for Jesus, Angus Buchan I read a beautiful article in the Scripture Union Devotional where the writer reminded me that “we are not the owners of the land, but purely the managers.” I thought that was such a lovely reminder. The devil […]
Influential revivalist, author and church leader Bill Johnson will be back in South Africa in April for the Kingdom Come SA conference in April — and he will be accompanied by his son, Eric who is a senior leader at Bethel Church in Redding, California. After Bill Johnson’s participation in […]