Minister Paul Verryn speaks to the Mail & Guardian about his relationship with God, the importance of religion and how his journey has changed.
Far from the world becoming secular, there will be almost six billion Christian and Muslim believers by 2050, according to a series of reports.
The church will see most of its future growth in the Global South, with Islam set to follow suit.
A new book examines how a charismatic church is brainwashing poor and gullible South Africans with the idea that God can be bought
There is the need for Christians to find a mutual compromise to embrace social diversity, specifically the human rights of homosexuals.
A false rumour about the new owner of a Picasso painting leads Christianity to go haywire.
People are desperate to escape poverty and are turning to charismatic churches that promise them healing and material rewards.
Christmas presents God as a baby, invoking Christianity as a deeper form of humanism.
The promotion of Christian values by some of our politicians endangers our constitutional integrity.
The Bible warns about false prophets, yet charismatic pastors such as TB Joshua are amassing fortunes from exploiting the poor and desperate.
A right-wing Hindu group in India has said that Muslims and Christians are not to join the festival of Navratri, claiming it is for "Hindus only".
The "prophet" of Nigeria’s Synagogue Church of All Nations is claimed to have healed a man in a wheelchair, a deaf woman, and even cured Aids.
Ugandan troops have killed 41 attackers in a battle with "tribal gunmen" in a western district near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
M&G readers air their views on religion and the Constitution, land reform and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
By provoking debate on his religion’s relation to the law Mogoeng opens himself – and, by extension, his office – to criticism, debate and engagement.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says he would not allow his faith to override his oath to uphold the Constitution.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s call for religion to influence the laws that govern the country could lead to the oppression of other religions.
It’s not just refugee law. The low status accorded to unbelievers has now become a matter of systematic civic exclusion, writes Zoe Williams.
Reported cases of Christians killed for their faith spiked last year, with Syria accounting for more than total worldwide deaths in 2012.
When considering this question, note that Jesus himself was hostile to religiosity – and that fundamentalists suffer from a lack of faith.
Novelists such as Colm Tóibín and Naomi Alderman are breathing new life into the gospels.
Critics have been stunned by the success of a History Channel drama appealing to millions of churchgoers.
From apartheid to the war on terror, religion has been used to further political agendas. Mpho Matheolane wonders what’s behind Ramaphosa’s God call.
Christians and Jews in the Holy Land are set to begin marking their most important festivals as Good Friday and Jewish holiday of Passover coincide.
A growing number of South Africans have started exploring Christianity’s origins in Jewish scripture and ritual, under the term Messianic Judaism.
President Jacob Zuma has been shrouded in fundamentalist Christian metaphor, but his flock is out in the cold, writes <b>Niren Tolsi</b>.
The time has come to shift the public discussion on atheism into areas in which genuine dialogue is possible.
Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj has panned media reports about Jacob Zuma’s comments on Christianity, saying it was lost in translation.
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/ 25 October 2011
We laugh at the Rapture quacks, says <b>Verashni Pillay</b>, but are we guilty of the same escapism?
Pray, and keep praying — was that the secret of the chief justice’s success?
I have never understood nor supported the obsession that Africans have with Christianity, a religion that came about through coercion.
A Bible annotated by the prolific science fiction writer is unlikely to reveal more than the books articulating his spiritual vision