The press release shares plans for bringing the ''full weight of the churches" against South African apartheid through "South Africa: Agenda '86," which will involve the whole National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. in advocacy, information, education and fund-raising projects. It will include a traveling photo exhibition of "The Faces of Apartheid, itineration of southern Africans across the U.S., and a conference on women and apartheid. A national convocation in November on "South Africa: A moral challenge for the American churches" will continue and enhance discussion of the situation in southern Africa within the Christian churches, focusing on the Kairos document, a theological...
The press release shares plans for bringing the ''full weight of the churches" against South African apartheid through "South Africa: Agenda '86," which will involve the whole National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. in advocacy, information, education and fund-raising projects. It will include a traveling photo exhibition of "The Faces of Apartheid, itineration of southern Africans across the U.S., and a conference on women and apartheid. A national convocation in November on "South Africa: A moral challenge for the American churches" will continue and enhance discussion of the situation in southern Africa within the Christian churches, focusing on the Kairos document, a theological statement about the current situation issued by Christians in South Africa. The press release mentions the Africa Office of the NCCC's Division of Overseas Ministries, Willis H. Logan, justice and development ministries, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), the Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN), the Dependents Conference, the Asingeni Relief Fund, the Legal Aid Unity of the CCN, "The Campus and Apartheid," Christian campus organizations, a May 1-3 "Conference on Disinvestment/Divestment," the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), South African photographer Peter Magubane, the Churches' Emergency Committee on Southern Africa, representatives of the Christian councils in southern Africa, "Voices from Southern Africa," and films.
