South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland — Isaiah 43.19 (New Living Translation) My faith rose when I saw that Brian Blount (USA) […]
[notice]Pieter Pohl, founder of Innovation Films and marketing manager of CMD Entertainment Africa, sheds some light on the latest movies.[/notice] GOD’S NOT DEAD 2 – AVAILABLE ON DVD FROM OCTOBER 28 Please visit www.godsnotdeadthemovie.co.za for more info. FAITH AFFIRMING MOVIES NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN MOVIE TRAILER […]
[notice]South African-born Christian journalist Charles Gardner, who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since the late 1970s, reflects on the Olympic Games in the wake of Britain’s best-ever Olympic performance.[/notice] As the Olympic Games shows increasing signs of returning to its pagan roots, the humility amid personal brilliance […]
Irené Raubenheimer co-founder of Rogz, a large pet supply company based in Cape Town, South Africa, has been attending the Global Leadership Summit for several years. While attending in 2012, God knocked him off his feet and inspired him with a grander vision. Soon after the 2012 Summit, his company […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide has recorded more than 1 600 religious freedom violations in Cuba in the first six months of this year, highlighting the communist government’s crackdown of churches, especially the beginning of a process which involves confiscation of 1 400 Assemblies […]
[notice]Professional triathlete, sports ministry worker, fitness coach and Gateway News columnist Cobus Kruger who, together with his wife, Philna, has been ministering with Athletes in Action at the Olympic Game in Rio, sent us this report last night.[/notice] I arrived back in South Africa early this morning. How awesome was […]
Originally published in Anglican Communion News Service The Anglican Church in Southern Africa is to consider blessing same-sex civil unions when its provincial synod meets next month. But the motion, proposed by the Diocese of Saldanha Bay, would not permit clergy to solemnise same-sex marriages. The motion says that clergy […]
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] As South Africa once again celebrate Women’s Month in August, this year’s anniversary is particularly special as it marks 60 years since the 1956 Women’s March to the Union Building where 20 000 women marched against proposed pass laws that threatened to restrict the […]
Nominations for this year’s 9th SABC Crown Gospel Music Awards are now open. The closing date will be on September 30 2016. This is a call for gospel industry troupers, i.e. singers, producers, promoters, writers, managers, radio stations, TV stations, etc, say the organisers, World Gospel Powerhouse. The main event […]
Senior Port Elizabeth church leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay this week called on the metro’s newly elected councillors to turn voters’ faith in them into action. In an open letter issued yesterday on the eve of today’s first meeting of the new council headed by the DA’s Athol Trollip as […]