Opinion

Church and leaders must stand up and call out false prophets among us

The crisis of abuse in the name of the Christian faith in SA speaks to two failures in our society

22 November 2020 - 00:00 By RAY McCAULEY

It felt like déjà vu, listening to hearings of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) currently taking place in Johannesburg. It is hard to comprehend that the horror stories about abuse coming out of the hearings are associated with the church...

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