South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Legal opposition to government pandemic regulations, which amount to an indefinite blanket ban of all religious gatherings in South Africa, is mounting. Last Friday the South African National Christian Forum (SANCF), which represents a number of churches in townships and informal settlements, filed an urgent application with the Johannesburg High […]
By Donovan Reeve The Covid-19 pandemic keenly highlighted as never before the plight of poorer vulnerable communities in South Africa. As people struggled to earn a living and feed their families during the early lockdown levels of 4 and 5, God created a spiritual awareness in our church, Breakthru Life, […]
Mkhize hints SA may move to level 1 in a few days The ACDP once again calls on the government to lift the lockdown in its entirety and to implement economic growth plans to boost the ailing economy, says ACDP MP Steve Swart in a media statement released yesterday. He […]
Covid-19 lockdown measures affect everyone in South Africa but for foreigners and refugees without citizenship life under lockdown has become a desperate struggle for survival as they are not permitted to receive social grants or food from the government. Macedonian Ministries in Pietermaritzburg has responded to the plight of 47 […]
While the imminent threat of the Covid-19 pandemic to physical health is currently the prominent battle, the virus is not the only invisible enemy we are fighting. The combination of an already-frail economy, the lockdown and uncertainty has contributed to a mental and emotional strain on South Africans from all […]
Anyone tempted to grumble about restrictions under the coronavirus pandemic would do well to be reminded of the conditions under which Jews were forced into hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Perhaps the most famous account concerns that of 13-year-old Anne Frank, who was locked with her family […]