South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]RUTHI VAN DER MERWE het Johnny Louw se Karoo uitreikings die afgelope week in Middelburg en omgewing bygewoon. Sy sê die evangelis het ʼn groot indruk op die Karoomense gemaak en sal ons verseker nie weer dieselfde wees nie. Sy deel haar indrukke van die geseënde week.[/notice] Wat ʼn week […]
Barely a week goes by in SA without the media reporting another incident of police corruption. The latest story involves a Western Cape police captain who allegedly raped a prostitute in his private vehicle. Pro-prostitution groups usually use incidences of police criminality and corruption to lobby for decriminalised prostitution. However, […]
Book Review by Lawrie Wilmot GODS AT WAR: DEFEATING THE IDOLS THAT BATTLE FOR YOUR HEART by Kyle Idleman I will divide this review into three parts: the theological, the descriptive, and the remedial. Theological. With respect to the author, he has not defined idolatry correctly, as in the true Biblical […]
Originally published in Religion Today Christians in Central African Republic have been shocked by the violent arrest on Tuesday of the president of the Evangelical Alliance of Central African Republic (CAR), Pastor Nicolas Grekoyame Gbangouon, Open Doors USA reports. Sources, who cannot be named for security reasons, told Open Doors […]
By World Watch Monitor At least 1 200 people have been killed in the last four years in Northern Nigeria by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, according to a preliminary investigation by the International Criminal Court. The Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said on Monday (August 5) the ICC […]
Originally published in The Christian Post On the world’s largest social media site a controversial group page accused of being hateful toward Christian belief has been taken down. “Virgin Mary Should’ve Aborted,” which had at its peak about 6,800 likes, was taken down Wednesday likely in response to complaints from […]
God has given the ailing Nelson Mandela to the nation as a “message for this moment” say South African Church leaders who met in Pretoria yesterday to consider the state of the Church and the nation. Noting the prayers and good wishes for the former President from all sectors of […]
Cornerstone Christian College in Salt River, Cape Town has introduced a new concept in tertiary education in South Africa, taking quality, affordable higher education to students where they live, in partnership with selected churches. The rollout of the novel Conerstone Learning Community programme (CLC) began in July. Several CLC campuses […]
[notice]Musings around children’s ministry. Reflections on week 4 of 10 weeks teaching stint.[/notice] Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do […]
[notice]A response to what is happening prophetically in the world today — A monthly column by Julie de Lisle[/notice] Seeing as though Friday the 9 th of August is women’s day, I decided it apt to give my attention to the topic of women in this column. Over the past […]