South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Pastor gets prison sentence for offensive remarks towards gays On Friday, 18 May 2018 Pastor Oscar Bougardt – who found himself in trouble with the law again after making certain “highly insulting, demeaning and uncharitable” statements regarding the LGBT community – was convicted of contempt of court and sentenced to […]
A monthly column bringing you frontline testimonies of what God is stirring up across the globe. By international revivalist Lindy-Ann Hopley, Beautiful Witness Ministries. Jesus is alive! Glory to God — the whole earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the oceans cover […]
Originally published in Life Site Pro-life groups in Ireland say they’ll regroup and keep fighting to defend unborn children as the battle shifts to rearguard action after Friday’s majority vote for legal abortion. Nearly 66% of a 64% turnout of Irish citizens voted to repeal the country’s Eighth Amendment, which […]
Christian leaders are invited to join a ground-breaking meeting in Johannesburg on June 5 to collaborate on a joint Bible-based response on land expropriation without compensation for submission to parliament. The urgent meeting is being hosted by the Kingdom Policy Institute (KPI) in order for the Church to provide the […]
Earlier this month I wrote an article asking if God still speaks to modern nations the way He did in the past? Little did I know that before the month ended I would be in a meeting in parliament where leaders in government, business and civil society movements would be […]
At a meeting convened by The Evangelical Association of South Africa (TEASA) and South African Council of Churches ( SACC) on Wednesday May 23, a broad cross-section of senior Christian leaders met in Kempton Park to discuss the key issues raised by the CRL Rights Commission’s Report on the “Commercialisation” […]
Looking over the full hall at the poverty and unemployment workshop in the South End Museum last Thursday I realised there are many Christian churches and NPOs engaged in uplifting unemployed people in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro. This was further emphasised when those present mapped out their collective outreach […]
“I truly believe that the Church has a responsibility in this season to put the Kingdom of God on display and to proclaim with authority that we have a solution – a message of hope and peace,” said Dr Nico Landman ahead of the 5th annual Africa March For Jesus […]
City men invited to join march on Saturday morning Hope Restoration Ministries is hosting its first Men of Hope conference at the Nangoza Jebe Centenary Hall in New Brighton, in Port Elizabeth this weekend — from Thursday May 24 to Sunday May 27. On Saturday morning the men will participate in […]
Praise the Lord! Even in the midst of hopelessness, we are assured that God is the one who changes our hearts. Overwhelmed by the magnitude of brokenness in the world, Goli Kalou of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, had decided to take her life and that of her son. However, God sent […]