“Not on our watch!” Bishop Dalton Adams, ACDP member of parliament, said to a big group of riled-up protestors in front of the Department of Basic Education‘s offices in Pretoria last Saturday. A march was held last in the city to protest against the proposed introduction of comprehensive sexuality education […]
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Constitutional Court reserves judgment in application for right of independents to contest elections
By Teresa Conradie Yesterday the Constitutional Court heard application by the New Nation Movement (NNM), Princess Chantal Revell of the First Nation people and two other applicants requesting the court to declare the Electoral Act unconstitutional for as far as it does not allow eligible South African citizens to stand […]
PE covered in prayer from the air
Twenty to 30 Port Elizabeth pastors and Christian leaders prayed over the city from two helicopters which embarked on a special prayer flights mission on Wednesday. The aerial intercession was initiated by PE helicopter charter service owner and pilot John Huddlestone who decided to put the choppers to fruitful Kingdom […]
Cape jeweller clarifies refusal to make engagement ring for gay couple
The Christian owners of a Cape Town jewellery business which has been attacked on social media and received hate mail after they recently refused to make an engagement ring for a gay couple have posted a statement on their website explaining their position. In their statement, the owners of Craig […]
Department’s Twitter campaign to promote reading sparks concerns over sexuality education plans
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) is having to put out fires again after it came to light that a recent Twitter campaign to promote reading for children, included provocative images of scantily clad and (apparently) naked women and couples in bed. Not surprisingly, this campaign has sparked fresh concern […]
Pastors, leaders unite in prayer for Malawi as election protests continue
More than 100 pastors, community leaders and business leaders gathered in Lilongwe, Malawi last Thursday for a special repentance conference called by Christian leaders against a backdrop of ongoing unrest in the country over allegedly rigged presidential elections on May 21. The conference at the Simama Hotel was the main […]
Giving a ‘voice to the voiceless’ for ‘truth to come out!’
André Bekker, who heads up New Living Way Ministry is calling on former homosexuals in South Africa to join an advocacy group called “Voice of the Voiceless, South African Ex-Gays” which he plans to launch in early October. Bekker, a former homosexual himself, says the most important voice in the […]
Cape Town conference to tackle addiction scourge through collaboration
A Culture of Recovery Conference that will take place in Cape Town at the end of August will seek to ensure that no one is left behind in the delivery of effective prevention and addiction intervention services. This is according to Karin Ussher from Project Exodus, which is described as […]
When love moved in to clear the garbage-strewn streets of the Pretoria city centre …
Early last Saturday morning a team of about 150 members of Dare to Love (DTL), a Pretoria group that regularly reaches out to destitute people with the love of Jesus, arrived in the heart of the city’s CBD with brooms, bags and gloves to clean up a massive mess left […]
Pretoria march planned to oppose sexualisation of schoolchildren
South Africans across the religious spectrum are invited to participate in a march in Pretoria on Saturday August 17 to protest against the radical sexualisation of school children through the proposed introduction of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in schools. Organisers of the protest action, the ACDP, say they aim to fight […]