South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
It is spreading around SA as God said it would! They call themselves the Bag Angels. They are busy Joburg working women. And on Saturdays they love to take handbags filled with Bibles and “essential” goodies to women in shelters. In just six months since starting the Bags of Hope […]
A Port Elizabeth farmer’s encounter with God during a sleepless night in hospital led him to undertake a 5 000 km road trip to serve poor people in northern Namibia. His wife Louise, who also went on the trip said the many divine appointments on their trek were testimony to […]
It took a year of getting bits and pieces of building material together, but the multipurpose wooden construction for Christ the Solution Ministry in Clarkson is almost completed. Only the floor still needs to be done. This is significant as “this is a place of hope where there was no […]
What happens when an artist who loves Jesus and believes that art transforms people is invited to conduct a 3-day art workshop for convicted criminals under the watchful eye of Correctional Services officials? God is present and lives are touched, answers Lisa Crumpton, a Johannesburg artist, after her latest interaction with prisoners during […]
Shortly after 10 am today, in the Western Cape High Court, Mr Justice Bozalek, dismissed an application by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and On Digital Media (ODM) for leave to appeal his ruling on the licensing of three porn pay channels. He ruled that he correctly ordered last […]
The heartbroken family of South African teacher hostage Pierre Korkie, 56, who died during a failed US rescue mission in Yemen a day before he was due to be released say they have forgiven his al-Qaida captors. An American journalist Luke Somers and 10 al-Qaida terrorists also died in the […]
Dr Hannelie Groenewald, who lost her aid worker husband, Werner and two children, Jean-Pierre, 17, and Rode, 15, in a Taliban terror attack in Afghanistan at the weekend, says their blood was not shed in vain and her purpose on earth has not yet been fulfilled. She was at work […]
Jefferson Bethke the 20-something spoken word poet and speaker whose 2012 YouTube video “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus,” has at this time been viewed more than 28.5 million times, will be visiting South Africa in 2015. Quintis Jacobs, youth pastor of Spirit Word Ministries which is organising the SA tour […]
Frontline Fellowship husband and wife team, Michael and Renee Watson, joined by two other South African missionary field workers, Ryno and Frank, have completed a five month, six country Congo Overland Mission. Ministering in Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, the DR Congo, Malawi and South Africa, the team travelled over 20 000 […]
Exhausted nurses at a hospital in northern Limpopo were amazed when a ministry team unexpectedly walked into their crisis meeting and offered to pray for them — resulting in uplifted spirits and two instant healings. The incident was part of a day of medical and miracle blessing at the Donald Fraser […]