South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Premier Christian News The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday appeared ready to rule that a Christian web designer has a right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages in a case the liberal justices said could empower certain businesses to discriminate based on constitutional free […]
Originally published in Independent Online A teacher has allegedly been fired for showing support for Israel. Following the recent violence in the Middle East, Sudesh Mooloo, 52, an Afrikaans teacher at Laudium Secondary School in Gauteng, posted a WhatsApp status which said: “I am not anti-Palestine but I am anti-Hamas. […]
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has lodged an appeal against all of the findings against him by the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) for remarks he made about Israel during a Jerusalem Post webinar in June last year. The 67-page ruling against him by Judge Phineas Mojapelo of the JCC was “needlessly […]
By Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) Pressure is mounting against South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng (“the CJ”), an outspoken Christian, following his “pro-Israel” comments made during a recent webinar. According to media reports, the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) has charged President Cyril Ramaphosa to meet with […]
Also see news report: https://gatewaynews.co.za/kzn-matric-pupil-says-his-art-is-not-satanic-but-explores-commercialised-religion/ “The end justifies the means” is basically the explanation given by the student whose artwork provoked a lot of outrage from South African Christians. Brett Murray had the same pragmatic response for his controversial painting, The Spear. In it he depicted SA President Jacob Zuma in […]
The call for comments on the revised draft of the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill has been extended to February 15, reports Freedom of Religion (FOR SA). Commenting on the Bill, FOR SA says clause 4(1) makes “hate speech” a crime– with potentially dire repercussions from […]
At Parliament on May 30 2018, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) attended a briefing by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice regarding the proposed Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill (“the Bill”). This briefing followed certain amendments made […]
Originally published in CBN News The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled against Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery who in 2013 refused to design and bake a cake celebrating a lesbian couple’s same-sex wedding. The Kleins felt that designing and making the cake […]
Originally published by Christian Concern A Christian student who was expelled from university after posting on Facebook in support of Biblical teaching on marriage and sexual ethics last week lost his case in a judicial review of the university’s decision. Felix Ngole was studying for an MA in Social Work […]