JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa — South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church, once ostracized for its theological justification of apartheid and white-majority rule, has rejoined the South African Council of Churches (SACC). The move, announced in July during the ecumenical organization’s triennial meeting in Johannesburg, ended more than 40 years of antagonism between the denomination and South Africa’s most prominent ecumenical agency and…
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