Category - Dutch Reformed Church

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21 Dec 2010

Dutch synod tries to heal centuries-old Protestant divisions

A gathering to improve relations between the many Protestant denominations in the Netherlands has taken place on the site of an earlier historic synod.
24 Jun 2010

Afrikaner cleric who refused apartheid is lauded in South Africa

The Rev Nico Smith, one of a small band of Afrikaner clerics who bucked the apartheid system by choosing to live in a black township, has died in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa.
30 Oct 2007

Dutch Reformed Church should repent of apartheid, says world body

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.