Category - apartheid

Tutu commends Christian communicators in justice struggle

Stephen Brown — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:11:14 +0000

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has commended Christian communicators for support that helped liberate his country from minority white rule, and has appealed for their continued assistance in the post-apartheid era.

Prisoner who became South African president celebrates 90 years

staff writers — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:01:19 +0000

Nelson Mandela, who played a crucial role in ending apartheid in South Africa, is 90 today. After a series of public appearances around the world over the past few weeks, he will spending the day at home with his family.

Church leader honoured for work against racism and apartheid

staff writers — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:22:55 +0000

The Rev Philip Potter, a former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has been honoured by the South African government for his determined commitment to combatting racism and apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s.

Church backs ex-combatant initiative to tackle violence in South Africa

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:09:02 +0000

A South African church-backed group that helps former combatants involved in violence during the apartheid era to play a peaceful role says its life skills programme is needed helping a country undermined by violent crime.

Dutch Reformed Church should repent of apartheid, says world body

Ecumenical News International — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:35:04 +0000

The World Alliance of Reformed Churches has said that a South African church, suspended from the grouping in 1982, cannot be readmitted because it has not renounced the support for the apartheid ideology that led to its exclusion.

Protests greet American university ban on Desmond Tutu

staff writers — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:44:51 +0000

Students, academics, human rights campaigners and a Jewish peace group have protested loudly at the decision of the Catholic University of St Thomas, Minnesota, to cancel a campus visit by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, because he has criticized Israeli government policy.

South Africa trial for apartheid murder attempt on church leader

Ecumenical News International — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:06:42 +0000

South Africa's former minister of police in the last apartheid era government, Adriaan Vlok, and the police chief under his watch, Johann van der Merwe, are to be charged with attempted murder of a church leader.

South African churches condemn Zimbabwe repression

Mike Crockett — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:32:34 +0000

A leading church body that played a key role in the overthrow of apartheid has called on South Africa to act against the growing waves of repression under President Mugabe of Zimbabwe

Namibian Lutherans overcome apartheid and colonial divisions

staff writers — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:29:37 +0000

After being separated for decades along ethnic lines by a history of colonialism and apartheid, Namibia's three Lutheran churches are moving towards unity following an announcement that they have established a combined church council- writes Rodrick Mukumbira for Ecumenical News International(ENI).

Going beyond fight or flight

Jonathan Bartley — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:04:14 +0000

On the third Monday of every January, the United States marks Martin Luther King Day. The national holiday celebrates the birth and life of the civil rights activist and Baptist minister, whose Christian convictions about justice and the Gospel led him to a path of non-violence and peacemaking.