Never Bow to Racism: A Personal Account of the Ecumenical Struggle - Softcover

Sjollema, Baldwin

9782825416549: Never Bow to Racism: A Personal Account of the Ecumenical Struggle

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ISBN 10: 2825416541 ISBN 13: 9782825416549

Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications), 2015

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A high point in the impact of the ecumenical movement was its Programme to Combat Racism, centred on its decades-long struggle to abolish apartheid. At once its most controversial and yet most prophetic activity, the battle against apartheid mobilised the ecumenical movement and churches around the world. In this honest and engaging memoir, a key actor in that battle, Baldwin Sjollema, offers an absorbing eye-witness account of the churches’ attempts to alert and mobilise the world against the evils of apartheid, revealing the depth of commitment and also of moral questioning that accompanied the struggle, the triumphs, and the long road since.

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About the Author

Baldwin Sjollema grew up in the Netherlands during World War II and then embarked on a lifetime of international work for the World Council of Churches and the International Labour Organisation and their actions for social change. In 2004 he was enlisted in the Order of Companions of Oliver R. Tambo by the government of South Africa.

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