South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Pastor Poncho Murguia is a humble man who speaks with a quiet authority. I watched yesterday as about 18 top police and prisons officers grappling with deadly gang violence in Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas listened intently to him for more than an hour. “I beg you, don’t wait, like we did, […]
Known as the man who transformed the murder capital of the world, Poncho Murguia, of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, will be visiting Port Elizabeth next week. Poncho will be teaching South Africans how they can play an active role in drastically reducing gang-related violence, the murder rate, extortion and corruption […]
It’s always been about the government. After Esther became the queen of Persia, married to King Xerxes, by divine order and orchestration, in Esther 2:22, we see Mordecai discover a plot by Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, to assassinate the king. Mordecai then […]
Janet-Brann Hollis, of SA Back to God, reports for Gateway News on a historic prayer gathering at Victory Sandton Church, Johannesburg last Saturday evening. Dr Arno van Niekerk, founder of the Christian Consensus in SA initiative, opened the evening in prayer, welcoming everyone. Janet Brann Hollis, of SA Back To […]
A prayer group called “9pm Call to Prayer” which started with a WhatsApp group of 43 people committed to pray for South Africa and the upcoming elections each evening, now has 2 300 members, says founding member Andre Harrison. “Last night alone over 200 joined the group,” he says in […]
Originally Published in The Christian Post The Rev Franklin Graham and other Christian leaders are urging supporters to pray about the current political crisis in Sudan. The head of the charity group Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association took to his official Facebook page last Friday to comment […]
Faithful and talented Gateway News volunteer reporter Alf James has been in the intensive care unit of Life Rosepark Hospital in Bloemfontein for six weeks recovering from organ failure due to sepsis as a result of a perforated duodenum. Alf, who lives with his beautiful family on a farm near Middelburg, […]
The Soweto Ministers Fraternal invites all South Africans to an election prayer day at UAFC HOPE to You in Dube, Soweto on Wednesday April 17. Reverend Frank Chikane, president of the Apostolic Faith Mission International in SA is the keynote speaker at the event from 10am to 12pm ahead of the general […]
An American missionary and his Guatemalan wife have been praying daily in a little used chapel for the past 14 years for a revival of Christianity in Wales. Through a series of extraordinary visions and confirmations, Dick and Gladys Funnell became convinced that God was going to revisit the principality […]
Originally published in Faith Family America Justin Bieber has opened about his struggle with depression. He took to Instagram to ask his friends and fans to pray for him View this post on Instagram My wife is awesome A post shared by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on Nov 15, […]