South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Recent claims made to parliament by the CRL Rights Commission that it has wide support in the faith community for its proposals for the compulsory licensing of religious practitioners and organisations were contradicted by major church groups who participated in public hearings in parliament this week. While a handful of […]
Freedom of Religion SA has issued an urgent call to church groups to challenge “completely untrue and grossly misleading” claims by the CRL Rights Commission that over 45 million Christians support its recommendations for the compulsory licensing of religion. In its official annual report which it presented to parliament last […]
The differences between churches and the CRL Rights Commission reached a new level last weekend when the Weekend Post newspaper led with a report on threats by major churches in the Eastern Cape to campaign against political parties which support the CRL’s religious regulation proposals. Freedom of Religion SA, which […]
The parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) has postponed next week’s scheduled hearings on the CRL Commission’s controversial report recommending the regulation of religion, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in a press release. Blaming the delay on the need to consider more pressing legislation, […]
Originally published in Fox News A prominent evangelical ministry has filed a federal lawsuit against the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), saying it defamed the Christian organisation as an “active hate group” because it endorses the biblical view of homosexuality. The clash marks the latest chapter in a growing […]
By Andrew Selley founder and CEO of Freedom Of Religion SA (FOR SA) The CRL Rights Commission briefing the media on its report on the commercialisation of religion. The report, which recommends state regulation of religion, was handed to President Jacob Zuma this week. The COGTA parliamentary committee will be […]
Originally published in Charisma News Liberty Counsel is filing a petition to the US Supreme Court on behalf of three California faith-based, crisis pregnancy centres that are forced to advertise an offer of “immediate free or low-cost …abortion” to their clients according to state law. This law forces Liberty Counsel’s clients […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor After four years’ imprisonment for “violating national security”, Iranian Christian Maryam Naghash Zargaran was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on the August 1 2017. She was due to be released four days earlier, on July 28, but, as Mohabat News reported, this was delayed […]
FOR SA says schools should not be intimidated into not exercising their rights to practice faith, invite Christian ministries Attorneys acting for the six public schools that were targeted by activist group OGOD over their religious practices have advised that they will not be appealing the judgment delivered by the Johannesburg […]
The Christian owners of a Cape wedding venue that has been in the news since last week for refusing — on grounds of their deeply-held biblical convictions — to host a same-sex wedding, continues to suffer attacks on social media and threats of legal action. In addition, the Stanford Tourism […]