South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
South African church leaders this week spoke out strongly against “blasphemous” remarks by the ANC Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe over the weekend” in which he compared the political Tri-Partite Alliance (ANC, Cosatu and SACP) with the Biblical Holy Trinity. Apostolic Faith Mission President, Dr Izak Burger said he was shocked by […]
Reconciling people, churches and ministries in Central, Port Elizabeth, to each other and to Christ is the passion of two young women who spearhead a new initiative called MOR For Central. Chantal Coetzee and Leanne Goodberry say that their calling to serve in the historic heart of the city is […]
Jay Jay Eras was a young man who seemed to have everything going for him and he was going for everything. Except he was going in the wrong direction. And unless there was a dramatic change in his life he would end up on the wrong side of the law […]
A Johannesburg woman who lived in torment for 18 years because of a rape and abortion experience when she was a teenager is being used by God to bring hope to hurting people. Mercia Scharneck who launched her restoration, teaching and charitable ministry, Mercia Scharneck Ministries, in Cape Town earlier […]
“If I would go to Iraq today bringing 350 000 visas to go abroad – one for every Christian in Iraq – 300 000 of them would take them. I have seen many Christians fleeing to northern Iraq and from there they try to go abroad. But to go abroad […]
Representatives of Joshua Generation Church (JGC) and the couple who complained to the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) about the church’s doctrine on corporal punishment, as well as other lobby groups, recently met at the Cape Town offices of the SAHRC. Parties at the meeting on October 10, sought to […]
A prayer walk on a Port Elizabeth primary school field rose to a new level when a boy who could not walk minutes before ran onto the field shouting that he was healed, said JOT teacher, Paul Clough. Dante had been struggling for four months with a crippling back problem […]
The Global Day of Prayer movement which spread to every nation in the world over a period of 10 years, and the Unashamedly Ethical movement which is currently taking root in different nations, are part of a plan that God is directing, said businessman Graham Power, at an informal city […]
Eighteen people responded to an invitation last week to attend the first monthly “Just1Hr Challenge” meeting of people who are willing to give an hour of their time each month to work on community projects in Nelson Mandela Bay. “I was pleasantly surprised by the response to this pilot meeting,” […]
Originally published in INcontext Ministries The members of a church in Minya, Egypt, have written a song of love and forgiveness after the church was attacked and burned down in an ongoing wave of anti-Christian attacks by Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Many Egyptian Christian leaders are reminding […]