Archbishop Makgoba uses Easter sermon to address pressing world issues
Delivering the Easter sermon at St. George's Cathedral, Makgoba says that unless politicians stop playing games, several countries are headed for crises.
South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN
CAPE TOWN - As believers mark resurrection Sunday, the head of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, has used his sermon to call for more to be done to address pressing world issues.
Delivering the Easter sermon at St. George's Cathedral, Makgoba says that unless politicians stop playing games, several countries are headed for crises.
He’s also called for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Middle East conflict and Gender Based Violence.
Makgoba says the world is currently living in a divided time.
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"For we live in a time when a European power, Russia, continues its merciless bombing of civilian targets in a neighbouring country, Ukraine. And when we look on in despair as Israel expands its occupation of Gaza. Where not even those identifying themselves as medical personnel are safe from attack and where the Israeli government gives every indication of pursuing ethnic cleansing with the collusion of the United States.”