South Africa
Sir, —The South African Council of Churches demanded the unbanning of the African National Congress in full-page advertisements in many newspapers across South Africa on January 8, 1987, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the A.N.C. The estimated cost was SNZ2OO,OOO. The advertisements ignored the A.N.C.’s Marxist ideology, its ties with the S.A. Communist Party and the Soviet Union and its failure to respond to repeated calls for it to renounce violence and take part in the political process. They failed to condemn the A.N.C. campaign of indiscriminate bombing which has killed and maimed scores of black and white men, women and children. The Christian Church is under attack by replacing basic Christian doctrines with Marxist ideological concepts, also by overthrowing proWestern Governments and replacing them with atheistic regimes. In Nicaragua a Christian is defined as an atheist who unconditionally supports Marxism. On which side is the New Zealand National Council of Churches?—Yours, etc.,
BERT WALKER. February 16, 1987.
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