‘Nails being hammered into flesh’: Archbishop Makgoba likens world’s injustices to extended Good Friday
On Good Friday, Christians commemorate the day Jesus was crucified.
South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN
CAPE TOWN - Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba has likened the current state of the world to a drawn-out Good Friday.
In his Easter sermon at St George's Cathedral on Saturday night, he told parishioners that it is as if we have lived 2024 through a very long Good Friday.
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On Good Friday, Christians commemorate the day Jesus was crucified.
Makgoba added that the shadows of Good Friday hung heavily over the destroyed lives of so many.
"Think of the millions of starving people in the Sudan, the insurgency in the DR Congo, where South African soldiers are fighting and dying, the violent chaos in Haiti and the war in Ukraine."
He also mentioned the conflict in Yemen and what he called "the slaughter in Gaza".
"Where genocidal rhetoric encourages the convention of war crimes in which men and women and children are killed and maimed with impunity, in those places the Good Friday sound of nails being hammered into flesh...are the only realities millions of people know."
https://t.co/xKoe7Kqkyi https://t.co/lWio2zpkfs . Christ is risen indeed!
— Thabo Makgoba (@ArchbishopThabo) March 31, 2024