South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
South African Christian pro-life activists urge churches and Christians in SA to mark the approaching 17th anniversary of abortion-on-demand in the country by praying and participating in pickets in various parts of the country. Since the Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed on February 1, 1997 against the will of […]
A Johannesburg Christian training centre is promoting moral transformation by offering free basic community training to anybody who will carry the training to their communities or beyond. The training, offered through the Mustard Seed Project of the Peniel Training Centre (PTC) in Florida Park, Roodepoort, includes growing a vegetable garden […]
Christians are invited to enrol for a 3-day missions course in Port Elizabeth that will be led by top international teachers, says Rev Dave Doveton of the Southern Missions Society. Canon Dr Vinay Samuel, and internationally renowned missiologist and co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and Professor Rollin […]
The commonalities of a blind leader and his followers are that both of them are blind, which is the obvious part, but also that their destination is similar. According to Jesus, both the leader and his followers are heading for a ditch. I was considering this recently when reflecting on […]
[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 WOLF OF […]
Christian pastors, priests, saving lives amidst turmoil Originally published in Baptist Press A breakthrough between warring factions in South Sudan has provided a glimmer of hope that the mostly Christian nation may escape civil war. Leaders of a rebel opposition group said Jan. 10 they would no longer demand the […]
Groundbreaking Christian documentary filmmaker Darren Wilson has just completed an eight-day shoot in South Africa which wraps up seven months of filming for his latest project, Holy Ghost and Holy Ghost Reborn. The project which follows his trilogy, Finger of God, Furious Love and Father of Lights, was originally going […]
DVD Review by Andre Viljoen COMPELLED BY LOVE — IRIS GLOBAL FILMS Compelled by Love, a new, feature-length documentary about legendary Mozambique missionaries Heidi and Rolland Baker, lives up to its title as it portrays God’s unfailing love working in desperate situations through people who are deeply in love with Jesus […]
By David Lazarus — Originally published in Israel Today When Therese Daoud arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital with a huge cancerous tumor, doctors said her only chance of survival would be to amputate the leg. What happened during the following months has left the medical staff and the nation […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald NASA’s newest telescopic image resembles a giant hand in space that is now being titled as the “Hand of God,” which is bringing countless of interpretations and possible definitions from scientists and spectators. The image was captured by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (also […]