Stop the tour, say Church leaders
New Zealand Church leaders have called for the New Zealand Rugby Union to “seriously and prayerfully” reconsider the decision to tour South Africa. In a statement signed by 19 leaders, including the Archbishop of New Zealand and Governor-General Designate, the Most Rev. Paul Reeves, and the Catholic Metropolitan of New Zealand, Cardinal Thomas Williams, they called the tour “ill-advised and an act of insensitivity in the struggle against apartheid.”
A similar statement was released last week by Church leaders in South Africa. Leaders in the two countries consulted with each other before the statements were released. The New Zealand statement was signed by 19 leaders of the Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational churches, and the Quakers.
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