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...arguments about stock divestiture are the easier to follow. For most advocates, the issue is primarily moral. Says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: "People who own stock in companies that do business in South Africa become indirect participants in the repression...
...couple's private life. There is much about debts and the obstacles that keep Paul from success. There is something about injuries that Liz suffered in a plane crash and oblique details about an international business deal with geopolitical implications. Booth is in public relations. His clients include the Rev. Elton Ude, founder of the Wayne Fickert Bible College and leader of an evangelical movement in Africa, and a mining company interested in mineral deposits in the area where Ude is harvesting souls. A U.S. Senator is also involved, as is McCandless, who prepared the original geological reports...
...deacons [RELIGION, July 15] characterized this historic order of ministers in negative terms like "lowest rank" and "beneath priests and bishops." Actually, permanent, or perpetual, deacons are an esteemed order and are the "icons" of the servant ministry of the church with an integrity of their own. (The Rt. Rev.) Harry W. Shipps, Bishop Episcopal Diocese of Georgia Savannah Cicadas Singing...
Tutu's successor at SACC, a group deeply distrusted by the authorities, is the Rev. Christiaan Beyers Naudé. A well-known member of the Afrikaner establishment, Naudé turned his back on Afrikanerdom in 1960, following the killing of 69 blacks by police in the Sharpeville massacre. He helped found the multiracial Christian Institute of South Africa, which declared apartheid immoral. In 1977 the government "banned" both the institute and Naudé, condemning him to seven years of virtual house arrest. Yet Naudé, 70, shows no signs of yielding. Since he assumed his SACC post last February, he has urged the government...
...youngest member of the clerical vanguard is the Rev. Allan Boesak, 38, who achieved prominence in 1982, when he was elected president of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which has 50 million members. The following year Boesak helped establish the United Democratic Front to protest the government's plans for a new constitution. An emotional orator, Boesak has called on Christians to pray for the downfall of a government that he says is run by "the spiritual children of Hitler." Boesak, a married man, was harassed by allegations, reportedly planted by security police, that he was having...