by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – Christians in South Africa are organizing a nationwide Feb. 25 afternoon prayer event in express support of Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Organized by Time2Rise South Africa, the event is intended to show solidarity with the Jewish state and counteract the South African government’s recent decision to bring Israel before the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel went to war against the Hamas Palestinian terror group, which rules the Gaza Strip, after thousands of terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and massacred 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis and abducted 240 more, including women, children, babies, and the elderly.
Hundreds of South African Christians are expected to gather for prayer sessions at 4 pm on Sunday in major towns, including Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, and Potchefstroom, JPost reports. Each session will include prayer for Israel, a declaration against the International Court of Justice case against the Jewish state and a prayer for Divine intervention in South Africa, JPost said.
“Many of the Christian community are deeply unhappy about the allegations being leveled by our government on Israel,” Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network, who will participate in the event, told JPost. “We believe in Genesis 12 that this will bring a curse on South Africa unless we distance ourselves from it. So we will do that, and we have been doing that very strongly.”
In a separate statement to JPost, Pearl Kupe, who is on the Time2RiseSA advisory board and is helping to organize the event, said: “Not everyone in South Africa does not like Israel or supports Palestine. We want to make our voices heard and clear.”
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