Word: beytagh
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...presidents of the World Council of Churches, is a vocal opponent of apartheid. Other South African clergymen have lost their passports; they can also be detained and charged under the country's Suppression of Communism Act. That was the fate in January of the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, dean of Johannesburg's Anglican cathedral. Recently, as ffrench-Beytagh's trial was postponed for "further investigations," police of South Africa's special branch, allegedly seeking connections with "subversive" organizations, swept through church offices, headquarters of Christian organizations and homes of church officials and other individuals...