South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Major companies go through a time of stocktaking. They do that so that they know how much stock of each of their products they have and how much they need to buy. They do stocktaking to know where they are in their […]
An East London pastor is using church advertising space to challenge Christian citizens and his congregation to vote their values and not their fears in the coming national election. Pastor Stef Davi of Stirling Worship Centre is displaying a Biblical Issues Voters’ Guide on a notice board facing a street […]
The Church has an important role to play in a “new struggle” in South Africa against the abuse of power by elected leaders, say Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) Church leaders. In a strongly-worded joint statement ahead of the May 7 national election, the church leaders “give notice” of their intent […]
On Tues 18 March at 8pm on TBN Africa, “Watchmen on the Wall” features a debate on corruption with officials from the ANC, DA, ACDP, EFF and Agang at the Unashamedly Ethical Conference in Cape Town. Public and private sector corruption presents the greatest threat to South Africa’s future success. […]
American Pastor Saeed Abedini’s case in Iran has taken a turn for the worse as a result of continual beatings in the country’s Rajai Shahr prison. Saeed has been imprisoned in Iran for his faith since September 2012. More than a week ago he was moved from his jail cell […]
Televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood mega-church in Houston announced on Monday that $600,000 (R6,5m) in Sunday donations were stolen from its safe last weekend. An off-duty Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy, and church employee, noticed the break in around 8:30 am on Monday morning. Investigators believe the robbery occurred sometime between Sunday […]
Originally Published in Christian Today World Vision has released a report written by Syrian children in which they detail their plight and call for stronger intervention from the international community. More than 2.5 million people, half of whom are children, have fled Syria to escape escalating violence in the region […]
The first Mighty Men Conference Johannesburg tested Victor Lemmer and his team’s faith and determination as it rained non-stop for 10 days before the event, creating havoc with their preparation of the campsite on open land south of the city. “We needed to cut the grass that was 1.2m tall […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen MADE TO CRAVE: SATISFYING YOUR DEEPEST DESIRE WITH GOD, NOT FOOD by LYSA TERKEURST The whole issue of our eating habits versus the need to be healthy and /or slim is the subject of a vast array of books, magazine articles, websites, etc. This is […]
[notice]A new weekly column in which Pieter Pohl, founder and managing director of Innovation Films, sheds some light on the latest movies. Check in each week for reviews and previews of mainstream and Christian movies at the cinema, on TV or on DVD.[/notice] NOW SHOWING IN CINEMAS: THE LEGO MOVIE […]