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The Franschhoek Healing Centre is a retreat centre situated on the grounds of Shofar Christian Church in Fransch-hoek, South Africa. It is a place of waiting – waiting on the Lord, to be specific. We believe and trust that as we meet with the Lord, strength will be restored and renewed...

What started as a step of faith in September 2025 has grown into a powerful monthly outreach on one of Durban’s busiest streets. 635Church has spent the past eight months hosting open-air worship gatherings on Florida Road, drawing believers, passersby, and curious onlookers into moments of prayer, worship, and ministry...

Does the old adage of “As good as gold,” still hold true today? In order to answer this question it would be prudent to go right back to the very first mention of gold in man’s civilisation...

In June 2021, the US Pentagon released a report on previously classified sightings and videos by fighter jet pilots of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The report refers to these observations as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). At least 140 observations show that these sightings are real, but remain unexplained...

Forty days after His resurrection, Jesus was taken up before the eyes of His disciples, and a cloud received Him out of their sight (Acts 1:9). It is a moment many believers acknowledge, but do not always consider deeply. Yet the ascension is no minor detail in the Gospel account. It is a mighty declaration that the risen Christ now reigns in glory...

In a major judicial turn of events, the Kenyan Court of Appeal has overturned a previous High Court judgment that had affirmed the right to abortion as a fundamental constitutional provision...

We were there to support David Scott, the man behind the “Kiff” persona; the man who had, one month prior, defended JOY! Magazine on social media when we were under attack for standing up for Biblical values. Following the incident, I reached out to Dave, wanting to hear more about his story. I was absolutely blown away by our conversation, and I hope you enjoy this interview...

The Constitutional Court ruling that compelled Parliament to proceed with an impeachment investigation of President Cyril Ramaphosa will...

Five-year-old Tabitha is playing with her dolls. Suddenly, she makes a sound like a siren, prompting her dad to start guessing what it might be – an ambulance? A police car? No, she says, it is an air raid siren...

The ministry organisation Open Doors Africa is having its annual event to commemorate Persecution Sunday on 31 May 2026...

Madrid’s Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium hosted The Change Madrid 2026 on Saturday 2 May, a massive evangelical Christian gathering that brought together about 35,000 people...

About one in three evangelical Christians in Britain say they have experienced hostility because of their beliefs, according to a new report by the Evangelical Alliance United Kingdom...

Mother’s Day is a beautiful pause in the calendar. Cards are written. Flowers are bought. Restaurants are fully booked. And somewhere, I suspect, Heaven smiles because whenever we honour sacrificial love, we are echoing the heart of God...

Despite the devastation and uncertainty brought by the ongoing conflict in Iran, a remarkable spiritual movement is quietly accelerating beneath the surface. Christian leaders report that the nation’s underground Church is not only enduring—but growing stronger—amid the chaos...

For Dr Laetitia Booysen, motherhood came at a cost – through infertility, loss, sacrifice, and surrender. Yet in every step, God proved Himself faithful, gently rewriting her plans and showing her the eternal value of family. Her testimony is a beautiful picture of what it means to trust the Lord when His calling looks very different from the life you imagined...

The third Mighty Men Conference is scheduled to take place in Mossel Bay from May 8 to 10, and South African men from all corners of the country are encouraged...

The world will celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday 10 May. Millions will express their gratitude and appreciation for the vital and indispensable role of motherhood. Motherhood (and fatherhood) was ordained by God at creation when He commanded the first man and woman created in His image, "to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” Genesis 1:28...

I was lost to my family for over 30 years.I was far from God, far from peace, and far from the man I was created to be. I loved my mother, but I loved the life I was living even more...

My daughter told me to write about my cancer experiences, but I believe that one should not focus on illness if one would like to heal. Sure, it helps others to relate if it is spoken about, but even then, we want to “find the rainbows” in the rain...

God did not call us to follow Him in isolation. From the beginning, His design has always included community, relationship, and belonging...

We got to know Lawrence Arendse through Charmaine, our late domestic worker. He lives in Capricorn, an informal settlement near Muizenberg, and stops by occasionally for groceries or a bit of help...

The third Mighty Men Conference is scheduled to take place in Mossel Bay from 8-10 May this year, and South African men from all corners of the country are encouraged to mark their calendars and register for a gathering that promises to once again offer a life-changing experience...

On 6 March 2026, more than 3 000 Cambodian Christians gathered at the “Art for Peace” mural in Phnom Penh, Cambodia...

Freedom Day (27 April 2026) marked 32 years of democracy in South Africa. Most citizens agree there is very little to celebrate. The ANC misused and perverted democratic institutions to advance its ideological agenda and loot the treasury for self-enrichment...

The Punjab Assembly has passed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2026, setting 18 years as the minimum legal age for marriage for both males and females and declaring underage marriage a non-bailable offence...

As South Africans commemorate Freedom Day on April 27, we remember more than just a historic election — we remember a nation on the brink of conflict, and a miraculous transition that defied global expectations...

Since 2006, every Thursday night at Livingstone House, the Reformation society has met.  At first we met in the Boardroom, downstairs...

Multi-award-winning South African worship collective 3C Live is set to release their highly anticipated 7th live album, All Hail, on 30 April 2026...

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls face extreme persecution simply because of who they are and what they believe...

Floods in Mozambique have spread their devastation to Cuamba in the Niassa province, where more than 6 000 FEBA listeners and broadcasters have lost their homes and belongings...

Quarterly report indicates that over 200 000 Africans were brutally murdered, raped, abducted or forced to flee their homes & businesses over the past year because they are Christians...

Testimony at the Madlanga Inquiry into police corruption reveals efficient policing under the Ramaphosa administration has all but...

For the past six years prayer movement Healing the Nation of Africa from Cape to Cairo has been diligently praying for South Africa and Africa and waging war over prophetic words for the region...

A false gospel rooted in Marxism has gained massive popularity, placing increasing pressure on Christians. We sense this pressure in the rise of cancel culture, where Christians are being censored, fired, or arrested for upholding their biblical beliefs. We feel it in the prevalence of “woke” messages that label Christians as oppressors who must be silenced...

Across much of the modern church landscape, a curious silence has settled over the pulpit. It is not the silence of reverence or reflection, but the silence of avoidance. Entire portions of Scripture--especially those dealing with the future--are quietly bypassed, rarely explained, and almost never preached through in a systematic way...

Bible sales in Britain have surged to their highest levels since records began, reflecting a growing spiritual interest across the nation—particularly among younger generations...

Lately, a poisonous weed has taken root among believers. It dresses up as concern for the oppressed, but deep down, it’s tangled in an old, dangerous heresy called replacement theology. We have seen it pop up in something people are calling “Gaza theology”, which twists suffering into a weapon to condemn Israel and the Jewish people right from the start...

I recently returned from a week of ministry in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles is Spanish for “the angels” and is frequently referred to as the “City of Angels”. Before going there I prayed and asked God to use me for His divine purposes, and also prayed that I might have a special encounter whilst there...

Families and friends of scores of Christians held in Iranian prisons have requested prayers as “concerns for their well-being grow and communication has all but ceased” amid ongoing U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran, Christians told Worthy News Thursday...

Pope Leo XIV's recent visit to the Mosque of Algiers--where he removed his shoes, stood in silent reflection before the mihrab, and expressed gratitude for being in "a place that represents the space proper to God"--is not a harmless gesture of goodwill...

American churches and mission groups are preparing to bring millions of Bibles and other Christian literature into Iran despite the ongoing war in the region, Christians familiar with the plans say...

In 2022, then Deputy Minister of Justice, John Jeffrey published the “Sexual Offences Amendment Bill” for public comment to fulfil the ANC regime’s agenda to decriminalise the entire sex-industry in South Africa - despite overwhelming public opposition...

An Iranian Christian convert who fled a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests in early January says he plans to return to his homeland as a fighter, underscoring growing concerns over the safety of minority Christians amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic...

For decades, the most powerful argument against Israel's future was demographic. The claim went like this: between the Israeli Arabs who are full citizens of the state and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria living under Israeli military administration, the Arab population in Israel was growing so fast that Jews would eventually become a minority in their own land...

Israel has held a special place in my heart ever since the summer of 1971, when I helped Roy Gustafson, one of my father’s associate evangelists, lead Bible teaching tours of the Holy Land...

After Ramadan ended on 19 March, the chief of this village became grievously ill. The villagers, however, were not supportive and would not take him to the hospital, because they disagreed with the chief’s tolerant attitude towards local Christians. If he wanted help, he could get it from the Christians...

YouVersion, creator of the world’s most popular Bible App, hit new records throughout Holy Week, with an average of 18.7 million people engaging with the Bible each day through its Family of Apps. On Easter Sunday, Bible engagement surged to more than 21.6 million people, a new record for the holiday and the most engaged day in YouVersion history...

On Easter Saturday we conducted an evangelistic outreach at Sea Point.  "Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Colossians 3:16 ...

The Exodus Experience is a 40-day, Spirit-led lifestyle journey designed to bring deep and lasting transformation. Led by Lechi Kamffer and Aletté Winckler...

The number of abortions in the U.S. continued to rise in 2025, according to a new report, while the number of unborn lives lost to the abortion drug jumped dramatically...

I have recently experienced the loss of a few friends and many acquaintances to various forms of cancer. My immediate prayer for each one is that they would be found steadfast in their faith in Jesus’ death and resurrection, and that they would enter into God’s eternal rest. Sadly, I am not always convinced that this is the reality. Some of their lives did not necessarily reflect this...

When we think about missions, it is easy to think first about the need. We think of the millions who have never heard the Name of Jesus, the crowds that gather in open fields across Africa, and the urgency of bringing the Gospel to them. All of that is real. The need truly is great. We can see it in plain sight everywhere we look. But hear me out here… I believe the deepest motivation for missions is not actually the need of the lost. Let me explain...

Alarming new findings from the Combat Antisemitism Movement’s (CAM) Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) have uncovered that Instagram is not merely hosting antisemitic content, but actively amplifying it to millions of users through its own recommendation systems...

In case you needed another reminder of the evil that the United States and Israel are up against, an IRGC terror organization official just announced that the regime has officially lowered its minimum recruitment age to twelve...

There are moments in a nation's history when a law reveals far more than legal intent. It exposes the moral direction of a country. This week may prove to be one of those moments for Canada...

The Voter Participation Survey developed for the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) - for the Local Government Elections scheduled for November 2026 - shockingly proves what most citizens already know...

At the recent CRL Press conference on March 25, 2026, Rev John Maloma, the newly appointed Chair of CRL’s Section 22 Committee for the Christian sector, assured that the current Section 22 process is an open, voluntary consultation...

A decision made behind the historic walls of Britain's Parliament has sent shockwaves far beyond London--and for many, it feels like a line has been crossed that cannot easily be uncrossed. This week, the House of Lords advanced legislation that pro-life leaders are calling not just controversial, but catastrophic. What has unfolded is not a minor policy shift...

Uganda’s chief of defense forces, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, said Thursday that his country could join the war against Iran “on the side of Israel,” issuing the warning in a series of posts on X as he voiced support for Israel and called for an end to the conflict...

Chuck Norris, the martial artist and Hollywood action star known worldwide for his outspoken Christian faith and message of perseverance, has died at the age of 86, his family confirmed.

49 Years Ago – On the  3rd April 1977, I was converted to Christ. It happened at the Ster Kinekor cinema in Pinelands. My family had moved from Rhodesia to Cape Town. We were living in Pinelands, just a few kilometres from where I had been born. It was a Sunday evening, 3rd April 1977, when I walked over to the local cinema, realising little, how dramatically that would change my life forever...

Reading reports of the plans leftist organisations have for the nations of the world makes my blood run cold. UN agencies in partnership with global feminist and sexual rights groups have targeted the sanctity of life, the God-defined institutions of marriage and the family, motherhood, fatherhood and parental rights - to redefine it or outright destroy it...

Some evils shout. They march, they headline, they provoke outrage. Others whisper. They slip through quietly, dressed as progress, framed as compassion, yet no less deadly. It was this quieter evil that emerged on Wednesday 18th March in the House of Lords...

One aspiring South African author now has the opportunity to bring their book to life. Texture Publishing, a professional book publishing service, has launched a competition offering a full publishing package valued at R15 000...

The relentless assault on the two-parent biological family, motherhood, fatherhood, parental rights, biblically defined gender roles and the nuclear family model is intensifying. However, a Trump administration resolution to define gender was voted down by the EU...

On the way to school recently, my son Michael was chatting away in his own two-year-old language, a steady stream of toddler theology and joyful noise. Then suddenly he squinted and said, “Papa, the sun is burning my eyes, can you please move the sun.” ...

In the August 2025 issue of JOY! Magazine, the editor (Erin) mentioned small and big miracles, and the importance of writing them down in a book. Her words encouraged me to share a testimony of my own...

Instead of pushing God out of the picture, some modern discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biology are prompting scientists to ask questions that sound remarkably theological — questions about beginnings, purpose, and design...

Some journeys begin with careful planning. Others begin with a simple “yes”. This one began with both and with a God who delights in working through ordinary moments to create extraordinary outcomes...

Paul writes, “Godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Tim 6:6). Careful reading shows that Paul does not dismiss gain. He redefines it...

Join Louis and Hettie Brittz this May for powerful parenting and marriage events across South Africa. Each session offers practical, Biblically grounded insight for families in every season of life...

“Rescue SA Civil Rights Alliance” (RSACRA) will lodge its first case at the Cape Town High Court within the next two weeks - challenging the constitutionality of race-based laws in South Africa...

Patrick was one of the first great missionaries who brought the Gospel beyond the boundaries of the old Roman Civilisation...

CfaN is well-known for our mass Gospel Campaigns in Africa. Yet, as successful and fruitful as this strategy is, it can never be the answer to reaching all of Africa for Jesus. Why? Because 55% of African people do not live in anything resembling a town...