eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 05 May 2003

Zurich Protestants beg forgiveness for persecuting Mennonites and Amish

Geneva (ENI). Protestants in the Swiss canton of Zurich have made a public apology for the persecution during the Reformation era of a radical Christian movement called Anabaptists, whose present-day successors include many Mennonites and the Amish community in North America. At a service in Zurich cathedral, Reformed Christians from Switzerland, and Mennonites and Amish from the United States held out the hand of friendship to each other. [381 words, ENI-03-0199]

Church taken during apartheid handed back 22 years later by NGK

Paarl, South Africa (ENI). The former members of St Stephen's Church, in the main street of this town in the Cape's wine-growing area, have returned 22 years after they were forced to leave because they were the wrong colour during the era of South Africa's racial ideology of apartheid. Descendants of the congregation forced to move from a white zone to a church in a coloured or mixed-race area have attended services at St Stephen's. [469 words, ENI-03-0198]

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