South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Citizens opposed to the Protection of State Information Bill, otherwise known as the Secrecy Bill, are strongly encouraged to attend public hearings in their area, the Parliamentary Liaision Office (CPLO) of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference urges in a newsletter today. After being approved – by 229 votes against […]
Thirty nine years ago the landmark US Supreme Court ruling known as Roe vs Wade gave American women the right to choose to abort during the first three months of pregnancy. The ruling purportedly acknowledged women’s constitutional right to privacy. If the killing of a million babies in the womb […]
Forty one Irish volunteer builders are rapidly turning an ambitious community upliftment dream into a reality in the impoverished, shackland township of Missionvale, Port Elizabeth. “It’s a miracle”, said Missionvale Care Centre Academy principal Pastor Russel Viljoen as the industrious Irishmen — seemingly oblivious to a relentless heatwave in PE […]
Originally published in Israel News Israel’s “Jonah in the Belly of the Fish” silver coin has been voted as Coin of the Year by the Krause Publications, a US publisher of periodicals on numismatics and hobbies. The coin was chosen as the best among 95 coins, which had been judged […]
The good news is that the Christian blockbuster movie, Courageous, opens in South Africa on Saturday January 27. The bad news is that it is only being screened in five cities. The film, which is a call to fathers to be real fathers, and which has significantly impacted hundreds of […]
As women join together in the Karoo town of Middelburg next weekend to seek a closer walk with God they will be encouraged to know that men in the area will be praying continuously for them for 40 hours from 5pm on Friday (January 27) to 9am (January 29) on […]
[notice]Five young men training at OM South Africa and ready to serve the Lord. One crazy, creative idea: What if we get a train pass for Europe and travel to share the Gospel? This was the birth of the Rebirth Experience. This is their story of faith and faithfulness.[/notice] The […]
An international team of 46 women — including nine from South Africa — started climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this week to raise awareness and funds to combat slavery. The women are being supported by a 10-woman prayer team, interceding for them at the base of Africa’s highest mountain — the highest […]
[notice]As the African National Congress celebrated its centenary this week, PE pastor Afrika Mhlophe reflects on its Christian heritage and its historical service to SA. But he laments that today’s ANC leaders are unprincipled, bent on self enrichment and populist. [/notice] The founding of the African National Congress on January […]
This week 100 encouraging emails were sent from South Africans to a Christian mother of five who is in a Pakistani prison awaiting her appeal against a death sentence for blasphemy after she was falsely accused of insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The email campaign organisers, In Context Ministries, have […]