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  • 24 Jul 2007
    South Africa trial for apartheid murder attempt on church leader

    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.

  • 16 Mar 2007
    South African churches condemn Zimbabwe repression

    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

  • 30 Jan 2007
    Namibian Lutherans overcome apartheid and colonial divisions

    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).

  • 18 Jan 2007
    Going beyond fight or flight

    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.