South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Xenophobia and lawlessness are unacceptable but community frustrations cannot be dismissed, says SACOFF in statement released this week on the crisis around illegal immigration The South African Community of Faith-Based Fraternals & Federations (SACOFF) has noted with deep concern the growing tensions surrounding migration, undocumented persons, community protests, and incidents […]
The South Africa Council of Churches (SACC) this week launched a national indaba which aims to engage interested parties in a search for solutions to tensions over foreigners living and working in South Africa. SACC general secretary Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana says in a statement that their priority is to create […]
Special report by Ashley Cloete of Friends from Abroad At the end of October last year, someone sent me this link to a video clip in which children were being removed from their mothers and women were being forcefully removed by police carrying out an eviction order of refugees protesting […]
Originally published in oikoumene.org On Monday a delegation led by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit met with the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and cabinet ministers in Johannesburg. The high-level delegation of the WCC with 16 representatives from all over the world, are […]
A new, community-based forum aimed at healing relations between South Africans and Nigerians that were damaged after recent deadly xenophobic violence was introduced to the media in Gauteng this week. “We give the glory to God and are grateful that He blessed it [the forum] and that it actually came […]
By Golda Meyer The plight of more than 200 Pretoria city-centre residents who were left destitute after recent outbreaks of xenophobic violence in the area, gave birth to a joint relief movement called #ServeYourCity. Various NGO’s and churches teamed up with the city management to find solutions to the disaster and […]
In the message to South Africa below, Rev Jannie Pelser of SA Mourns issues a call on citizens to participate in a national day of mourning on Friday by wearing black refuse bags over their clothing, to mourn for evils in our land, and to be part of the […]
[notice]Neziswa Kanju attended the Ellis Park Pentecost prayer rally and Africa Day celebration on Pentecost Sunday. It was disappointingly more political and interfaith than she expected from a recent pre-event report in Gateway News. But it did conclude with heartfelt Christian prayers for the continent.[/notice] Different religious groups gathered at […]
The efforts to stem the tide against violence directed towards nationals from other African countries will be dead in the water if we do not deal with how Africans address issues of ethnicity and the constitution of identity. Reinforcing the idea that we are all Africans is good but the […]
[notice]In this article posted on his blog today, Burn 24/7 movement founder Sean Feucht who was in South Africa last week, reflects on the centrality of worship and unity in the heart of God — and on SA’s potential to “break the demons of genocide, perversion and corruption through a […]