South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]In Video of the Week we post a weekly video clip to inspire, inform, edify or entertain. Readers are welcome to email suggested clips of the week to news@gatwaynews.co.za[/notice] Originally published in Fox News A nun in Massachusetts, USA, helped save the life of a 74-year-old man trapped underneath a […]
Originally published in Channel 24 Following viewer complaints, M-Net has moved the new drama Lucifer four hours later, upping the age restriction to 16 and banishing it to TV’s version of hell: late night on Fridays when nobody watches television. M-Net started showing Lucifer last week at 19:00 and with a […]
Originally published in Charisma News Alongside programmes like Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards, Netflix now offers users another type of content: Christian sermons. The online video streaming service added lectures by four popular Christian pastors in early December. “I believe if Jesus were on planet Earth today in […]
The #Prayf4RainSA event on Saturday (January 30) in Bloemfontein led by ‘Oom’ Angus Buchan was as much a prayer gathering for spiritual rain as it was for physical rain over South Africa, which is as dry as it is thirsty for respectful relationships, ethical governance, equity and freedom from crime, […]
By FOR SA Following the South African Human Rights Commission’s finding against them on Friday, January 22, Joshua Generation Church in Cape Town has said that they have no choice but to appeal the SAHRC’s findings and recommendations which they regard as an “unconstitutional censorship of religious belief in South […]
Originally published in Christian Examiner Since 1964, the Catholic Church has recognized Christians of other denominations as “separated brethren” who might still enjoy salvation through the mother church in Rome – a conclusion only reached after four centuries of contentious relations and warfare between Catholics and Protestants in Europe and […]
Originally published in Christian Today American pastor and former prisoner in Iran Saeed Abedini returned to his family in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday only to be greeted by the news that his wife Naghmeh Panahi had filed court documents to legally separate from him, citing spousal abuse as the reason […]
Originally published in CBN.com This week over 250 Muslim leaders met in Morocco to release the Marrakesh Declaration, a groundbreaking document calling for Muslim nations to defend Christians against persecution. Open Doors reported that violent Islamic extremism will be the “lead generator of persecution for 35 out of 50 nations” […]
This week’s winners Congratulations to our first 6 winners in the Passion World Tour ticket giveaway competition. Frieda Schultz, Ellenor Lotter and Natalie Theunissen have won tickets to the event at Pretoria (Loftus Versveld) on February 12, 2016 and Jacques Conradie, Pat Fourie and Vuyokazi Nabo are the winners of […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] While listening to one of our national public radio stations, the topic of ‘social cohesion’ and the possibility of criminalising racism came up. Not surprisingly, very soon into the discussion, the inevitable happened. It soon became a mudslinging […]