Little Eden Society’s third annual Danny & Domitilla Hyams Memorial Lecture will be presented by former Miss South Africa and chief executive of Standard Bank Wealth South Africa Peggy-Sue Khumalo. Through this event, the...
The Portuguese Cultural and Welfare Centre of Cape Town will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of its annual Blessing of the Fishing Fleet, a traditional community festival, in October at the V&A Waterfront. Fishermen...
Crisis / Erin Carelse / News / Violence
by Erin Carelse · Published September 18, 2019 · Last modified September 16, 2019
The violent acts, and burning and looting of business premises, mostly owned by migrants, in city centres and townships in Gauteng, have left the country in shock. “The ongoing chaos has violated basic human...
Abortion / Christian Living / Crisis / Erin Carelse / News
by Erin Carelse · Published September 17, 2019 · Last modified September 16, 2019
Despite efforts by pro-choice advocates to expand the number of abortion clinics in South Africa, doctors in the country are largely unwilling to perform the procedure. One such case is that of Dr Jacques...
Any Christian who has done the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola “can never give up hope”, because in these exercises “we encounter the incarnational Christ”, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba told the Jesuit Institute’s...
How a fake ‘priest conned the local Church… A Durban parish is traumatised after a man who passed himself off as a Catholic priest in three South African dioceses was discovered to be a...
THE Tavern Project against gender-based violence which has been spearheaded by Justice & Peace in Klerksdorp diocese was one of the models showcased at the ninth South African Aids Conference, held in Durban this...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse / News
by Erin Carelse · Published April 30, 2019 · Last modified April 29, 2019
Catholic parishes around the country are being invited to participate in a major national programme to help the poor in the colder months. Every year for 17 years the Dutch Reformed Church has organised...
Senior school students at CBC St John’s Parklands in Cape Town helped pack 25 000 meals for Rise Against Hunger at Table Bay Mall. Three students and one teacher joined SABC3’s Espresso morning show...
Christian Living / Crisis / News
by Kilian SC · Published January 12, 2019 · Last modified January 11, 2019
No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his Jan. 8 nine-minute speech, his first such event televised in prime time from the Oval Office, about what he termed a crisis at the border, than...
A Pretoria Franciscan has called on his confrères throughout Africa to set up local commissaries of the Holy Land. At present, the South African commissary is the only one on the continent. Its head,...
A 24-year-old woman dumped sulfuric acid on a priest while he was hearing confessions in the Managua cathedral. Father Mario Guevara, 59, was immediately taken to the hospital and treated for burns. The Archdiocese...
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