South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The deadline for submissions to the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) regarding what many Christians perceive as a threat to remove Good Friday and Christmas public holidays is next Tuesday (June 30, 2015). The deadline was originally May 31 but the SALRC subsequently extended it to June 30. In […]
The deadline for submissions to the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) on its proposal to remove Good Friday and Christmas as public holidays, has been extended from May 31, 2015 to June 30, 2015. During a telephone conversation with the SALRC yesterday (Wedensday, May 20) they also confirmed that […]
In Gateway News earlier this year, I wrote of the recent proposal by the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) to remove Good Friday and Christmas as public holidays on the SA calendar. According to the SALRC, to have the two main Christian holidays as paid public holidays, amounts to […]
African Christian Democratic Party President Rev Kenneth Meshoe will be on SAfm tomorrow morning (Tuesday, November 13) to discuss the reviewing of Christian public holidays by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, says the ACDP in a press statement […]
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has invited all South Africans, particularly of the Christian faith, to join them in a protest march in Johannesburg on Saturday (November 10) against “what appears to be an attack on the Christian faith”. In a media statement released today, ACDP President, Rev Kenneth […]
By Taryn Hodgson — Africa Christian Action At The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) hearings in Cape Town today, representatives from Christian, Muslim, Khoisan and business groups present agreed that Good Friday and Christmas should not be removed as […]
[notice]Retired clergyman Reverend Lawrie Wilmot shares his point of view on the current public hearings into whether Christian holidays should be removed from the list of public holidays.[/notice] I am a born-again and Spirit-filled believer. However I am in favour of taking our Christian holidays out of the secular calendar. […]
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) are conducting hearings in four provinces into whether Christian public holidays in South Africa “unfairly discriminate against holidays of other religions.” The commission said in a media statement that it has “received a […]