South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in World Watch Monitor A member of a religious order and a French aid worker were kidnapped at gunpoint Jan. 19 in the capital of the Central African Republic. One of the victims, a man identified as Gustave, is a member of the congregation of Holy Spirit who […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen Jen Gibbs has a successful career in publishing when an aged manuscript mysteriously appears on her desk. It tells the story of Sarra and Rand, two people of vastly different backgrounds who find themselves thrown together in dangerous and difficult circumstances in the heart of […]
Many questions are being asked about how sustainable the current global economic climate is. In fact it seems that even the so called economic experts have run out of ideas on how to tackle the issues that are at hand and escalating towards breaking point. Richest 1% own more than […]
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] Church needs to lead a singing revolution As a Marriage Officer, I have married over a hundred couples – most of them unchurched. 15 years ago, every […]
Holy Mass will be celebratedat the Archdiocese of Cape Town’s Chapel (12 Bouquet Street, Cape Town, behind St Mary’s Cathedral)on Monday, 2nd February 2015 at 13h10 to mark the passing of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act on February 1,1997, and to pray for a change of heart on the part […]
Originally published by World Watch Monitor Several African leaders, concerned by the rise of Islamism in the continent, attended the Paris anti-terror march, on Sunday, January 11. Among the 50 foreign leaders who marched there, African heads of state included those from Mali, Niger, Senegal, Benin, Togo, and Gabon. They […]
Al Qaeda Claims ‘Charlie’ Attacks, Vows More Ahead Originally published in Christian Examiner From Christians and Muslims to Jews and atheist, religion, race and politics were set aside Sunday, Januart 11, for a momentous act of solidarity as roughly 1.6 million people led by leaders from around the world filled […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald When 12-year-old Martin Pistorius fell into a vegetative state in the late 1980s, the diagnosis of Cryptococci Meningitis was expected to leave him in that condition until he died a short time later. But the boy didn’t die. And 12 years after his paralysis, […]
Prominent US Christian media consultant and culture transformation expert, Phil Cooke, will be a keynote speaker at the Association of Christian Media (ACM) 2015 Conference at the Aviator Hotel, Kempton Park, Gauteng, from April 21 to 23. The conference theme is “Connect Together for the Future” and will focus on […]
Originally published in NPR News Nearly five years after it hit bestseller lists, a book that purported to be a six-year-old boy’s story of visiting angels and heaven after suffering a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came […]