CHURCH ON APARTHEID
Principles Rejected
JOHANNESBURG, December 14. The World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, has adopted by at least an 80 per cent, majority resolutions which reject some of the fundamental principles of South Africa’s apartheid policy. In a statement released today at the end of the week’s meeting, the conference adopted the following resolutions: “A policy which permanently denies to non-white people the right of collaboration in the government of a country of which they are citizens cannot be justified. “It is our conviction that there can be no objection In principle to direct representations of coloured persons in Parliament. We express hope that consideration will be given to the application of this principle in the foreseeable future.” Other highlights of resolutions embodied in the statement were: There are “no scriptural grounds for the prohibition of mixed marriages.” No Christian may be excluded from any church on grounds of colour or race. ( The present system of job reservation must give way to a more equitable system of labour. Wages of non-Europeans must be raised by concerted action.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 17
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