[notice]Michael Swain, Executive Director of FOR SA draws on current events in Norway to show how a legally-entrenched secular humanist worldview affects citizens. South Africans should be concerned about moves to start entrenching this foreign worldview into laws that will radically impact the lives of ordinary people, he warns.[/notice] The […]
Tag: freedom of religion
FOR SA appoints Executive Director to help defend religious freedom
Michael Swain –passionate about protecting freedoms that impact on the mission of the Church [notice]Cape Town pastor Michael Swain answers questions (see below) from Gateway News about his calling into an arena that is increasingly capturing news headlines and challenging Christians to respond effectively. Announcing Swain’s appointment, Andrew Selley, Founder […]
B&B fined $80 000 for refusing to host gay civil union ceremony
Originally published in Christian News Network ‘Our policy will not be changing,’ say owners The owners of a bed and breakfast in Illinois have been ordered to pay $80 000 (R1 178 500) after they declined to host a civil union ceremony for two homosexual men on the premises, and […]
Church appeals SAHRC’s Report on spanking in the home
On Wednesday, March 30, Joshua Generation Church delivered its appeal against the findings and recommendations of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in ‘the spanking case’, to the SAHRC. The Church’s appeal follows a finding by the SAHRC in January 2016, that spanking in the home violates children’s and […]
Don’t downplay freedom of religion and belief, ACDP urges government
“Last year was the worst year in modern history for Christian persecution throughout the world. With this in mind the ACDP notes that religion and belief are conspicuous by their absence in the title of today’s debate,” ACDP MP Cheryllyn Dudley said in parliament this week. Speaking in the Human Rights Day debate she […]
Christian festival wins fight to sing name of ‘Jesus’ in Toronto square
Voices of the Nations has won the right to hold its annual music festival in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, after a dispute blew up last October when the square’s management refused the Christian organization a permit on the grounds it had previously proselytized in contravention of a city bylaw. “I believe […]
Kenya backs down on attempt to regulate religion after Christian outcry
Originally published in Christian Today Kenya’s government has rowed back from moves to regulate the country’s churches in the face of fierce opposition from religious leaders. New proposals unveiled last week by Kenya’s Attorney-General Githu Muigai would require all religious bodies to register and for preachers to have police clearance. All religious […]
Arggghhh: Charlie Brown gets censored
Originally published in Christian Examiner As if Charlie Brown doesn’t have enough to worry about with Lucy moving the football, now he’s getting censored. Johnson County Schools in Kentucky have told the staff at W R Castle Elementary in Wittensville, a school staging “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” that they must […]
Why we cannot regulate religion — Part 3
By Andrew Selley (Founder of FOR SA, & Leading Apostle in Four12 global partnership of churches) & Advocate Nadene Badenhorst (Legal Counsel, FOR SA). In Gateway News the last two weeks, FOR SA published Part 1 and Part 2 of a 3-part series on why religion (and especially the Church) cannot […]
Why we cannot regulate religion — Part 2
By Andrew Selley (Founder of FOR SA & Leading Apostle in Four12 global partnership of churches) & Advocate Nadene Badenhorst (Legal Counsel, FOR SA) In Gateway News last week, FOR SA published the first article (Part 1) in a 3-part series on why religion cannot be regulated or even “self-regulated”, as […]