South african council of churches
Church council urges people to avoid large gatherings
The council has urged all worshipers to abide by the COVID-19 regulations if they wished to go to church.
Religious leaders have raised concerns over whether the country will have the emotional strength to fight this new variant.
Leaders from various denominations are standing outside the St Georges Cathedral in front of the Western Cape legislature.
Western Cape church leaders will gather at St Georges Cathedral at 12pm on Tuesday as part of a nation-wide campaign organised by the South African Council of Churches (SACC).
Church leaders said given that corruption was a direct attack on citizens, it had resolved to protect the vulnerable. They committed themselves to work with government and other organisations to eradicate corruption.
The SACC’s Archbishop Thabo Makgoba on Sunday said the fight against corruption should also involve ending ‘the dependence of political parties and their leaders on donations from the rich and powerful.’
Religious gatherings of up to 50 people were now permitted across South Africa’s churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples.
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced that places of worship may reopen subject to strict restrictions under level three of the lockdown.
A high-level delegation of the World Council of Churches is in the country on a social justice mission.
On Thursday night, 13 worshipers were attending a Passover service when the wall of a church they were in collapsed.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says government will be meeting with religious groups after a video emerged on social media in which a pastor is said to have resurrected a man lying in a coffin.
Radio 702’s Clement Manyathela spoke to Bishop Zipho Siwa and Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana about the unfolding scandal that’s hit the church.
Speaking at the Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum-Civil Society Conference in Johannesburg, Gift Moerane says raising voices while in foreign countries would not aid the situation.
Unless we begin at this point in acknowledging Desmond Tutu’s spirituality we will completely misunderstand who he is.
Outa has been briefing Parliament’s Public Enterprises Committee along with the SACC and a group of academics, all of whom have compiled reports on state capture.
Parliament's Public Enterprises Committee will also hear from the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) and the State Capacity Research Group.
The organisation is also calling for a comprehensive convention to address allegations of state capture, among others.
Gigaba’s spokesperson Mayihlome Tshwete says some appointments credited to the minister in the report were not made by him.
Last week Cosatu said allowing Jacob Zuma to address its activities is inconsistent with the decision it took to call on him to step down.