The pamphlet says Rev. Edward C. May, a Lutheran pastor, retired in 1985 after eleven years' service as Director of the Office of World Community of Lutheran World Ministries, where he represented the Lutheran World Federation at the United Nations. The pamphlet says the "Free Namibia Emphasis" (FNE) was adopted by the American Lutheran Church (ALC) at its 1986 convention. The pamphlet discusses The Rev. Hugo Hahn, colonialism, Catholicism, the Rhenish Missionary Society, the Finnish Missionary Society, Ovamboland, the Kavango, missionaries, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Southwest Africa, Dr. Lukas de Vries, the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambokavango Church, Dr. Leonard Nangola Auala, apartheid,...
The pamphlet says Rev. Edward C. May, a Lutheran pastor, retired in 1985 after eleven years' service as Director of the Office of World Community of Lutheran World Ministries, where he represented the Lutheran World Federation at the United Nations. The pamphlet says the "Free Namibia Emphasis" (FNE) was adopted by the American Lutheran Church (ALC) at its 1986 convention. The pamphlet discusses The Rev. Hugo Hahn, colonialism, Catholicism, the Rhenish Missionary Society, the Finnish Missionary Society, Ovamboland, the Kavango, missionaries, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Southwest Africa, Dr. Lukas de Vries, the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambokavango Church, Dr. Leonard Nangola Auala, apartheid, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the Prime Minister of South Africa, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Paulus Gowaseb, German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (GELC), Anglican Bishop Colin Winter, Roman Catholic Bishops, Peter Katjavivi, SWAPO (South West African Peoples' Organization), Bishop Colin O'Brien Winter, the Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN), the Christian Centre, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Evangelical Lutheran Church, African Methodist Episcopal, the World Council of Churches, bombings, Robert Mize, Richard Wood, Edward Morrow, David deBeer, Justin Ellis, Fr. Heinz Hunke, Bishop Kleopas Dumeni, Captain Frantz Ballach, Koevoet, Nikodemus Nampala, police, Joseph Dumeni, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Erastus Haikali, Kassinga, refugee camps in Angola, Zephania Kameeta, Bishop James Kauluma, Resolution 435, Cuban troops, and UNITA. • THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD TODAY • THE CAPTIVE CHURCH - 1844-1870 • SOWING SEEDS IN THE NORTH - 1870-1957 • MISSION BECOMES CHURCH - 1957-1971 • THE OPEN LETTER - 1971 • CHURCHES PULL TOGETHER • A CHURCH UNDER THE CROSS • CHURCH MEMBERS IN EXILE • THE CHURCH IN PRISON • CHURCH CALLS TO CHURCH • THE CHURCH IN THE MEANWHILE • EPILOGUE