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Time to reflect: Easter holy days call us back to the foundational values of tolerance, solidarity and shared humanity. Photo: AAC /MakanakaMedia

From holiday to holy day

Rediscovering the power of Easter in a wounded world: Easter reminds us that leadership is not confined to positions of authority. It is lived out in our daily choices, in how we…

Pastor Ray McCauley introduces then deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa during the launch of the Rhema Church campaign against violence towards women and children on July 30, 2017 in Johannesburg. (Photo by Gallo Images / The Times / Alaister Russell)

Ray McCauley and the prosperity gospel in the new South Africa

Religion in Africa can mean big business for those who know how to scratch where it itches

Faith: ANC supporters at a civil disobedience campaign protest in the 1950s. Older people have the patience and experience to go through hardships and still see hope, the author writes. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

Does Jesus still have meaning for today’s youth?

This young generation faces problems previously only envisaged in science fiction movies. They need to reflect on the effect of their own demands on their world

The church has fallen into the worldly trap of placing money and comfort above God.

Morals decide the state of the nation

But the church has fallen into the worldly trap of placing money and comfort above God

Israel Mogoatlhe, an African Food and Canning Workers’ Union comrade of Neil Aggett. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Slice of life: ‘Those people, they have killed Neil’

Most of the workers said his face, it looked like Jesus

The 37-meter (121-foot) acrylic and concrete structure, which cost $800 000, is viewed by some as a symbol of corruption, giving rise to a local nickname ‘Christ of Theft.’ Thousands are demanding its removal. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)

‘Christ of Theft’ statue poses dilemma for Peru

The 37-metre acrylic and concrete structure, which cost $800 000, is viewed by some as a symbol of corruption

Israeli Arabs perform a nativity scene for tourists in the northern town of Nazareth. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)

Israeli mayor wants to make clear his town was not Jesus’s too

Tired of being confused with Nazareth, an iconic city next door where Christians believe Jesus was raised, is hoping to change its name

Kiri’s first criminal act involved a stolen Coke

Keeping the faith

Organised religion, which tells us to believe in invisible things, does not tackle real suffering

The Amazing Grace Zionist church congregates in New Canada

Blessees dethrone the God of compassion to install a God of greed and gratification

When God and people are commodified for material transactions, racism is ignored, greed is blessed, classism and sexism is accepted and LGBTI is evil.

Zuma repeats that ​ANC will rule until Jesus comes

"I hear people complaining when we say the ANC will rule fully until Jesus comes back but we have been blessed. Pastors have prayed for us."

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Jesus is a feminist – and so am I

Pontsho Pilane writes about her deep connection with both her faith and her feminism, and her efforts to make sense of the two together.

The fragment is believed to have come from Egypt and contains writing in the Coptic language.

Jesus’s wife mentioned in ancient scroll

An ancient piece of papyrus that contains a mention of Jesus’s wife is not a forgery, according to Columbia, Harvard and MIT scientific analysis.

Could this be the first physical evidence of Jesus and his family?

A limestone burial box, typical of first century Jerusalem, has been found with words chiselled on side: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus".

Jesus is fiction’s latest protagonist

Novelists such as Colm Tóibín and Naomi Alderman are breathing new life into the gospels.

Benedict tackles the ‘question of interpreted history’

Pope’s third book on Jesus reaffirms virgin birth

Pope Benedict published the last part of his trilogy on the life of Jesus which reaffirms the the virgin birth as an "unequivocal" truth of faith.

A newly discovered fragment of papyrus suggests Jesus was married. But can we trust the document

Deep Read: Did Jesus really have a wife?

A newly discovered fragment of papyrus suggests Jesus was married. But can we trust the document, and was Mary Magdalene the lady in question?

Jesus Christ lived in the townships

Jesus Christ lived in the townships

The pastor who said Jesus was infected with HIV is back for more. This time he would like to welcome you to hell on earth.

British man to net fortune with ‘shoebox’ treasure

An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by a British scrap metal dealer is to be sold at auction with an estimate of nearly -million, after languishing for years in a shoebox…

More than 400 children taken from US polygamist ranch

Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Texas…

180 taken from polygamist sect compound in Texas

Authorities removed more than 180 women and children from the Texas compound of a polygamist sect on Saturday evening after receiving reports of ”sexual and physical abuse”. The…