South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport.[/notice] The World Cup rugby is finished and New Zealand earned a well-deserved win. The impact of Carter’s drop goal in the Semi-Finals (All Blacks vs Boks) was significant. […]
Ghanaian-based international healing evangelist Bishop Dag Heward Mills will be back in South Africa next week to lead “Healing Jesus Campaign (HJC)” crusades in the country in partnership with local churches. The latest campaign in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Free State and Northern Cape from November 18 to December […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Historic gathering of Christianity’s different traditions Twenty-five years ago, on November 4, 1990, a priest risked his life to hold a mass in a cemetery in Albania. In 1967 his president, Enver Hoxha, had declared he’d “abolished” Christian faith, and that his country was […]
An investigation by the Commission for Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) into the commercialisation of religion has angered respected church leaders in Gauteng who recently received summonses ordering them to attend hearings or face a year behind bars. The CRL has subsequently apologised to the church leaders […]
The great women of the Bible such as Esther, Ruth, Deborah and Mary the mother of Jesus, all have one very simple character trait in common: a surrendered heart. They each made themselves available for God to do His work in and through their lives and as a result the […]
By Daniel Brink, Jericho Walls Thousands of Christians all over the country gathered in small groups at homes, churches, schools, universities, businesses, and various other public places on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, to pray for South Africa. A recent increase in social unrest, economic decline, moral decay of the Church, […]
The miraculous is one of the ways our Almighty Creator reveals Himself to us. Recently, I heard of a farmer near Somerset East whose pomegranate crop had been destroyed by black frost, which not only wiped out the fruit crop, but two-thirds of his 30 000 trees. However, after prayer […]
The Commission for Gender Equity (CGE) has asked the Human Rights Commission (HRC) to investigate disparaging comments about former homosexuals that were posted on Facebook by Dr André Bartlett, a gay activist and Dutch Reformed Church minister, and two others, says André Bekker, a former homosexual and founder of New Living Way […]
A visit by Frans Cronje, the filmmaker of “Faith like Potatoes” and “Hansie” fame, who lives in Cape Town, to his friend Franco Smith, head coach of the Toyota Cheetahs, ended-up in the two deciding to challenge themselves by cycling from Bloemfontein to Cape Town’s Sea Point! Frans, Franco and […]
Churches speak out on university fee crisis The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba and ANC struggle veteran Rev Frank Chikane have both expressed solidarity with their sons, Nyakallo Makgoba and Kgotsi Chikane, who were among a group of students arrested yesterday (Wednesday, October 21) when they attempted to storm Parliament […]