South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Charisma News A county clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds was held in contempt of court by a U.S. federal judge on Thursday and sent to jail. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 49, was led away by US marshals who […]
The Marriage Life Mag (MLM) which will be launched this Saturday is a Christian publication that focuses on marriage and family issues. With the divorce rate as high in the church as outside of it MLM fills a void in the South African Christian Media landscape. I spoke to MLM […]
The premiere of ‘Extra Ordinary’, a feature length documentary that captures what God can do when a bunch of ordinary young adults make themselves available to Him during an annual New Year’s beach outreach, will be screened on September 25 at the Johannesburg head office of Ster Kinekor, says director, […]
Just as the ‘swinging sixties’ started to gain momentum, a Jewish teenager from the East End of London took the pop world by storm with a string of hits. Her first – Don’t Treat Me Like a Child – was appropriate enough as she was only 14 at the time […]
Bible teacher and author Dr Hollisa Alewine will be in South Africa from October 9 to October 25 to teach on the Creation Gospel, a framework of the Bible whose key concepts and symbols are found from Genesis to Revelation. “She is a teacher of the deeper things of God,” […]
Carl “Faithwalker” Dippenaar is setting out on Monday (September 7) on his second walk across South Africa this year carrying a cross to a Mighty Men Conference. He and Koos September and Thabo Nkosi of Mossel Bay will carry the cross 400km from Mossel Bay to the MMC Western Cape […]
On Friday, August 28, the Constitutional Court (the highest court in the country) heard and reserved judgment in the case of Ecclesia de Lange v Methodist Church of South Africa. This is undoubtedly the most important case for religious freedom and the autonomy of the church that has ever come […]
“South Africa is a nation desperate for God’s intervention, according to the National Day of Repentance (NDR) vision document. The NDR vision says one thing our country needs to do is to repent and turn from its wicked ways – the nation needs to change its mind, which is the […]
[notice]Libby Norton reports on the advice given to South Africans by visiting Israel advocacy expert, David Olesker, on how to respond to anti-Israel propaganda.[/notice] For those who love Israel and the Jewish people it is hard to see the international onslaught of criticism, lies and propaganda against them — particularly […]
One of the blessings of the recent Switched On evangelism campaign in Nelson Mandela Bay was the salvation of former, notorious gang leader, Xola Ngxolo and members of his gang who all accepted Jesus during evening meetings in a tent in Zwide. Ngxolo who was crippled after he was stabbed […]