South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Gateway News turns two today. Thank you Lord for keeping us going and growing through this time and for sustaining our appetite for the “impossible”. Thank you too to every person and organisation who has supported us with prayers, encouragement, news, writing, admin assistance, talent, wisdom, advertising support and donations. […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen OCTOBER BABY by ERIC WILSON October Baby is the novelisation of the 2011 film of the same name. It is a fictitious account of how 19 year old Hannah finds out that not only is she adopted, but she is the survivor of a botched […]
‘Flying In Recovery‘ author and radio presenter Helen Phillips is running her next divorce recovery course at CCFm Radio Station in Muizenberg, Cape Town, starting on Saturday, March 2, from 09h30 to 12h30. There were some ‘wonderful healings’ on the last course, says Phillips, who says she is repeating the […]
Cape Town Christian pro-life activist Peter Throp was today found guilty today of damaging municipal property and fined R5 000 or three months imprisonment, suspended for five years. Sentencing him to double the R2 500 fine he received on Septermber 30, 2012, for placing pro-life stickers over illegal abortion stickers, […]
[notice] A fortnightly column by Anna Heydenrych: the sixth in a series of reflections on the nine fruits of the Spirit (Galations 5:22-23)[/notice]The world is a mad place where truth is often distorted. We all live in this world and are all potential victims of these distortions. For example, many […]
Natasja Barnard works at a place of safety for women where she teaches a Christian-based recovery programme. What is remarkable about this young woman is that not so long ago she was addicted to drugs and involved in prostitution. She has come a long way with God in a relatively […]
[notice]Broadcasters like e.tv and Top TV believe it is their constitutional right to profit from the lucrative pornography industry. And adult porn consumers say it is their human right to choose what they want to view in private: nobody is getting hurt and those who don’t want to watch can […]
Christians raise serious concerns British Members of Parliament yesterday voted 400 to 175 in favour of historic legislation that will give gay couples the right to marry. But embarrassingly for pro same-sex marriage Prime Minister David Cameron, more than half of his own 303 Conservative Party MPs did not support […]
Recent scientific evidence about the brain and its development provide compelling grounds for turning down TopTV’s application to broadcast pornography in South Africa, says Doctors For Life (DFL). DFL’s scientific objections to porn on television are spelled out in a written submission to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa […]
Originally published in Charisma News [notice]J Lee Grady, former Charisma Editor and director of The Mordecai Project, visited Nigeria last month. This is his report.[/notice] I love so many things about Nigeria. Their food is delicious (moin-moin and jollaf rice are my favorites), their hospitality is warm (my hosts gave […]