South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Business Day An urgent application was lodged yesterday with the Constitutional Court by One Movement SA (OSA) to have sections of the Electoral Amendment Act declared invalid and unconstitutional. This follows a similar application lodged in May by the Independent Candidates Association. The respondents in the OSA […]
The Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) has ruled that Judge Siraj Desai conducted himself in a manner unbecoming of a judge and has given him a written warning censuring him for involvement in political controversy in support of the BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions) movement. The ruling, released yesterday, has been welcomed […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Notable conservative Christian broadcaster and onetime presidential candidate Pat Robertson, widely known as the long-serving host of the popular Christian Broadcasting Network programme The 700 Club, has died. He was 93 years old. CBN News released a statement announcing Robertson died in his Virginia Beach home […]
The cholera death toll in Hammanskraal could be as high as 50, more than double the official count of 24 deaths, local Christain activist and advocate Moafrika Wa Maila told Gateway News today. He said the additional deaths were reported by community members this morning at a meeting in a […]
In the 30 years that I’ve been involved in addressing some of our region’s most pressing health and social issues, including GBV, HIV/AIDS and child abuse, I have never encountered an issue that is as emotionally charged and resonant — with as many people across all sectors of our society […]
You can win R1 000 on the evening of Godly Revolution on Friday June 16 by entering the Happy Dance competition. Here’s how. Print out your Godly Revolution ticket (You can buy tickets here if you haven’t got yours yet) and take a video of yourself strutting your stuff to […]
I have noticed over the years how God often gives us a physical example (or symbol) of what he’s talking about, later to be fulfilled by a spiritual reality. As Jesus explained to Nicodemus, we are born of water (I guess meaning from our mother’s womb when her waters break), […]
A special report from Julita Kok from Switzerland where she in on a different kind of assignment than her Africa missions of recent years Many Gateway readers will remember me as the woman traveling through SA and then Namibia and then, oh my word, Cape to Cairo. Just by typing it, […]
Originally published in Catholic Herald A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to death after he received cartoons of Mohammad, the founder of Islam, in a WhatsApp chat message to his phone. Nouman Asghar, 24, of Bahawalpur in Punjab, was convicted of blasphemy under 295-c of the country’s Penal […]
Originally published in Faithwire The daughter of 107-year-old Julia Mae Hunter-Rice said it’s her mother’s commitment “to that which is right” that has led to her long life. “Her secret is smiling and being fair,” Hunter-Rice’s daughter, Dorthy Dickson, told WTOK-TV. “She has always stood for that which is right and, […]