South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The ANC released a statement on Wednesday stating that it has not called for state regulation of churches and that it believes that churches and religious institutions must be free to govern and regulate their own affairs within the ambit of the Constitution. South African Church Defenders which was planning […]
Opponents of the CRL Rights Commission’s controversial Section 22 Committee process for the Christian sector who participated in a Religious Freedom Imbizo in Cape Town last Saturday expect to have a follow-up meeting soon with Dr Zweli Mkhize chairperson of the Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), said […]
President Ramaphosa has embraced the language of self-regulation for the Church. But a council established by an Act of Parliament to determine where your faith begins and ends is not self- regulation. It is state control by another name. In the article below Pastor Bert Pretorius president of the South […]
Freedom of Religion South Africa released a statement today rejecting a claim by the CRL Rights Commission that the exposure of systemic corruption within the Department of Home Affairs reinforces the commission’s call for state registration of pastors. The CRL says, in a statement released on Tuesday, that Home Affairs […]
At a press conference last week Professor Musa Xulu called the CRL Rights Commission chairperson Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva a dictator and the CRL’s Section 22 committee on Christian-sector abuses a front for pushing state regulation of religion. At a media briefing yesterday the CRL chair and Section 22 member Dr John […]
SEE ALSO: FOR SA responds to Prof Xulu’s resignation: calls for independent inquiry into committee In a bombshell public announcement today Professor Musa Xulu told media that he has resigned with immediate effect as chairperson of the CRL Rights Commission’s controversial Section 22 Committee on Christian sector abuses. Flanked by […]
By Freedom of Religion South Africa A major constitutional dispute is now before the Gauteng High Court following the submission of a detailed 400-page application by the South African Church Defenders (SACD). At the heart of the case is the CRL’s controversial Section 22 Committee, which the founding papers allege […]
Leaders of a march to Parliament today by about 4 000 Christians opposing state regulation of religion were told they will be given an opportunity to address Parliament on their concerns, said a spokesman for SA Church Defenders (SACD) which organised the protest. Apostle Siniko Nxesi told Gateway News that […]
Thousands of Christians are expected to join the Western Cape Provincial Christian March to Parliament on Thursday to defend religious freedom and oppose state regulation of the Church. The response on the ground has been overwhelming, said Apostle Siniko Nxesi a media spokesman of SA Church Defenders which is organising […]
Despite denials from CRL Rights Committee chair Thoko Mkwanazi-Xaluva that the CRL intends to push for state regulation of religion and her assertion that the CRL respects the right to religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution, the draft white paper and legislative framework produced by the CRL’s Section 22 Committee […]