• The South African Council of Churches (SACC) is an interdenominational forum in South Africa. It was a prominent anti-apartheid organisation during the...
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    mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches, and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of adherents. Importantly...
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  • The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members...
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  • Matthias Rath (category University of Hamburg alumni)
    Rath's advertising campaign, the South African Council of Churches issued a statement that Rath's activities in South Africa "can only be interpreted as misguided...
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  • member of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC), World Methodist Council, Churches Uniting in Christ, and the World Council of Churches...
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    mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches, and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of adherents. Importantly...
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  • peace churches. Together, it encompasses more than 100,000 local congregations and 40 million adherents. It began as the Federal Council of Churches in 1908...
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  • It is also a member of the South African Council of Churches. The AFM is one of the oldest Pentecostal movement is South Africa with roots in the Azusa...
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  • uniting churches with Methodist participation. Some denominations may not have an exclusively Wesleyan heritage. African Methodist Church, West Africa African...
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  • Three churches from the Dutch Reformed Church tradition in South Africa are often mentioned together as "three sister churches". They are the Dutch Reformed...
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  • department officials were told might have led to the incident. South African Council of Churches chairperson Mautji Pataki commented "We are gravely concerned...
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  • of African Methodist Episcopal Churches List of Coptic Orthodox Churches in the United States List of Coptic Orthodox Churches in Canada List of Eritrean...
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  • with the backing of the South African Council of Messianic Churches in Christ (SACMCC), which together are supported by millions of congregants. In January...
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    to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members. The term "black church" may also refer to individual...
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    (Nigerian church) was established as the first African Initiated Church. There are thousands of African-initiated churches (more than 10,000 in South Africa alone)...
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  • Lutheran church in the southern African region. It is a member of the Botswana Council of Churches. The ELCSA was constituted from older churches in 1975...
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    Presbyterian Church of Africa Reformed Churches in South Africa United Congregational Church of Southern Africa Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa Uniting...
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    Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social...
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    Jerry Pillay (category People of the World Council of Churches)
    general secretary of the United Presbyterian Church of South Africa, a member of the central committee of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), he was...
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  • ecumenical World Council of Churches. South Africa's Anglican church has a more liberal tradition that sets it apart from its more conservative African counterparts...
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    state church to form the Reformed Churches in South Africa (GK) in 1859. There were thus now three Dutch Reformed churches in what would become South Africa—the...
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  • native black South Africans and eventually through Zionist Pentecostalism and into African Instituted Churches. Rodney Smith, a white South African, read about...
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  • men and women, one of them being the Reverend Dr Frank Chikane, the former secretary general of the South African Council of Churches and a former director-general...
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    Edwin Ronald Makue (category Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces)
    an MP Makue was the General Secretary of the National Executive Committee of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) from 2006 to 2011. Makue began...
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    Frank Chikane (category Use South African English from August 2012)
    a South African civil servant, writer and cleric. He is a member of the African National Congress and moderator of the Commission of the Churches on...
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    resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa". This was seen as a gesture of support for him and the South African Council of Churches which he led at...
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  • Malusi Mpumlwana (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. He is currently the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), spearheading its work...
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  • The Federal Council of Churches, officially the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, was an ecumenical association of Christian denominations...
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  • mandate. Religion in South Africa South African Council of Churches "Press Statement by Pastor Ray McCauley on the Occasion of the Merger Between NILC...
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  • The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or the AME Zion Church (AMEZ) is a historically African-American Christian denomination based in the United...
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