South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Yesterday ACDP President Rev Kenneth Meshoe and Deputy President Wayne Thring submitted two petitions to Parliament aimed at preventing SA from committing itself to a World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty which will be discussed at the WHO Assembly in Geneva from May 22 to 28. The petitions, from the […]
As expected, the Minister of Health published new health regulations yesterday ahead of last night’s midnight expiry of Covid-19 restrictions originally imposed via a national state of disaster. In a move that was not generally expected he also extended the time period for public comment on the controversial Draft Health […]
Action 4 Freedom (A4F) a Justice NPO which challenged the legality of the public consultations process regarding draft amendments to health regulations says it will appeal a decision by the Western Cape High Court to dismiss its application as soon as it receives a dated, court-stamped version of the judgment. […]
Judge Hayley Slingers reserved judgment in the High Court in Cape Town yesterday in an urgent application by justice NPO Action 4 Freedom (A4F) to have the public consultation process regarding draft amendments to the health regulations declared unlawful. She said she would make a ruling by not later than […]
Proposed measures consolidate unaccountable power in a single minister The deadline for submitting comments on the draft health regulations ended at midnight on Sunday April 24, but grave concerns about their application and future implementation remain. The DearSA online platform alone registered over 283 000 individual submissions with the Department […]
Government’s plans to keep on micro-managing citizens’ lives by amending health regulations are falling apart as a result of its failure to follow proper judicial and administrative process, said executive director of Freedom of Religion South Africa Michael Swain. But my message is: “Keep sending in your submissions. Don’t take […]
Originally published in Sowetan Live We will obey God, not men.” With these words, executive board member of the International Federation of Christian Churches (IFCC) Bishop Mosa Sono says their affiliate churches will adhere to the 50% capacity of congregants ahead of the Easter weekend, but will not demand proof […]
Special report by Dr Singeziwe Sibeko, a senior researcher at Stellenbosch University Contextually “prayer connect” is an assembly of various calibres of prayer warriors and intercessors from different denominations and organisations, levels of society, ages and from across the borders. These prayer connect meetings are directly responsive to pressing, current […]
Enforcing Covid-19 vaccination is like bringing back apartheid that enforced separation of people depending on skin colour, said the ACDP president Rev K Meshoe at the Union Buildings yesterday. When the University of Johannesburg was called Rand Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) during apartheid, he said, it had banned black students “who […]
NMB Christians are invited to join in a global prayer meeting from 1pm to 2pm on Saturday January 29 at the Elizabeth Donkin Square, at the Donkin Reserve in Gqeberha (PE). It will be a prayer and worship initiative. Intercessors from various countries all over the world will participate in […]