South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Errol Naidoo, Family Policy Institute The May 29 General Elections signalled a fundamental shift in South Africa’s political landscape. The ANC lost its 30-year majority in Parliament and coalition government became a reality. The official opposition also changed hands when the DA joined the Government of National Unity (GNU). However, the country’s […]
Jeremiah 18:6 As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so too, are we in the hand of God, and yet we think that we can do things on our own, forgetting that we are merely the clay, and we are not the potter. If the potter is not happy […]
By Craig Bailie — Originally published by Democracy in Africa Is there a biblical case for democracy? Do churches prepare their congregations effectively to engage in everyday politics? And if not, should they? These questions are as important today as they have ever been. In Zimbabwe, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa […]
Orginally published by The Christian Institute British pro-life campaigner Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has received R302 000 (£13 000) and an apology from the police after being wrongfully arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. The director of March for Life UK has been arrested twice by West Midlands Police for […]
Religious institutions in South Africa still enjoy a high degree of religious autonomy. But in a disturbing trend, various democracies in Africa are currently facing pressure to impose state regulation of religion and some states have already done so. Several years ago, after some widely-reported cases of pastors abusing their […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Muslims burned down a church building in the early hours of Saturday Auguust 10 in central Nigeria’s Niger state, sources said. The razing of the building of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) congregation in Kontagora town at about 3am was the second […]
A Christian couple and their young family – passionate about the Gospel that brings freedom to the captive – dedicated their lives to the service of a strictly-Muslim country in North Africa. In the wake of 9/11, when New York’s Twin Towers were toppled by Islamist fanatics, some of their […]
In this week’s Transforming A Nation podcast Janet Brann-Hollis discusses Kingdom Culture, addressing the question: “Did Jesus live out a culture that was ‘counter culture’ to His era! Each week we publish the latest episode of the podcast which can be viewed at the following YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5hLMkCPnQ9TfBC-mbDNiUw
Originally published in Christian Today Donald Trump has told tech billionaire Elon Musk that his close brush with death has made him even more of a believer than before. The Republican presidential hopeful survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month, when a lone shooter’s bullet […]
No longer a voice in Parliament, former ACDP MP Marie Sukers has started an organisation called Voice to Parliament to “fight for Christian democracy in South Africa”. During a recent interview I found out more about her remarkable life story. This is Part 2 of a 3-part series. [Read Part […]