Press release about arrests at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. of the Rev. Dr. Arie R. Brouwer, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, and Bishop Philip Cousin, the council's president. Brouwer and Cousin were among about 25 religious leaders arrested today and among several dozen religious leaders who have joined the demonstrations at the embassy this week as part of a stepping-up of church involvement in this phase of protest against apartheid. The NCCC is coordinating the special effort, during which more than 200 U.S. church leaders and members are expected to be arrested over four days. Other religious leaders arrested today include Bishop Orie Bromfield of...
Press release about arrests at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. of the Rev. Dr. Arie R. Brouwer, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, and Bishop Philip Cousin, the council's president. Brouwer and Cousin were among about 25 religious leaders arrested today and among several dozen religious leaders who have joined the demonstrations at the embassy this week as part of a stepping-up of church involvement in this phase of protest against apartheid. The NCCC is coordinating the special effort, during which more than 200 U.S. church leaders and members are expected to be arrested over four days. Other religious leaders arrested today include Bishop Orie Bromfield of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.; Bishop Cecil Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Temple Hill, Md.; the Rev. Everett L. Zabriskie, secretary for church development and operations, Reformed Church in America, New York; Rabbi James Rudin, national director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee , New York; Dr. Donald G. Jacobs ; director of the NCCC's Partners in Ecumenism program, New York; Bishop James Thomas of North Canton, Ohio, president of The United Methodist Church Council of Bishops; Bishop Joseph Yeakel of the Washington, D.C., area, United Methodist Church; Dr. C. H. Kallaur, chair of the Churches Human Rights Task Force, Orthodox Church in America, and Dr. Robert Tiller, director, Office of Governmental Relations, American Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. The press release mentions TransAfrica, the 12 South African consulates across the United States, United Methodist bishops, directors of regional and local councils of churches, the Rev. Joan Campbell, the NCCC's Commission on Regional and Local Ecumenism, staff and constituencies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), representative of the United Church of Christ (UCC), and United Methodist bishops.
