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Article: Apartheid horror stories point up churches' failings.(report of Truth and Reconciliation Commission)(Abstract)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 20, 1998
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Christianity used to justify racist system, South African commission says
Amid the horror stories about human rights abuses during South Africa's apartheid years, one starkly illustrates the divisions within the country's faith community at the time: Frank Chikane, respected general secretary of the South African Council of churches and a leading cleric in the black wing of the Apostolic Faith Mission, was a security police detention and being brutally tortured. Overseeing this torture was a elder in the white wing of the same church who, after his day's "work" on the Chikane, left police headquarters and went to worship.
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