Word: kerk
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Those words would not be particularly surprising if they came from one of the liberal reformers who have long opposed apartheid, South Africa's poisonous system of racial segregation. But they come from Johan Heyns, the new leader of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (N.G.K., the Dutch Reformed Church), for many years one of apartheid's principal pillars. The church has traditionally provided God-fearing Afrikaners with powerful scriptural support $ for the system by insisting that separation of the races represents the will of the Almighty...
South Africa's racial policies have been denounced by black and mixed-race clergy and by many English-speaking white Christians. But that has had little impact on the dominant Afrikaners. Their three Dutch Reformed churches, especially the large Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (or N.G. Church), have conferred a consistent moral endorsement on racism. "The church was the bastion of white supremacy, especially after the Boer War and the Depression," says Smith...
...modern monarchies are closer to the people they democratically monarch than The Netherlands' House of Orange, and last week new Queen Beatrix, 42, and her family demonstrated why. Her coronation in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk as successor to her mother. Queen Juliana, 71, who was abdicating after 32 years, was a blaze of pageantry and color. But a block away from the monarchist crowds, in a city lately famous for noisy dissidents, clamored a raucous group protesting not only the coronation but also the country's tight housing policies. Did the royals realize that the dissenters were...