“FAILURE IN AFRICA"
(From a Reuter Correspondent) SALISBURY (Southern Rhodesia). The South African coloured evangelist, the Rev. Nicholas Benghu, in a series of forthright sermons to packed coloured and white congregations in Salisbury, declared that the Christian churches and Christianity had failed in Africa. “While the African has failed to grasp Christianity, the white has failed to live by what he professes and preaches,” he said. “In South Africa the Africans are going back to their old customs, because they can find no hope in Christianity as a system. “The African is bewildered by the number of Christian churches with their different dogmas and doctrines —Christianity has failed to penetrate their hearts.” Known as “the black Billy Graham,” Mr Benghu is a converted Communist.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29099, 11 January 1960, Page 14
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