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Show South Africans' plight to be recalled June 16 Rev. Don Proctor, Fa. Peter Chase and Fa. Shannon Leach of the Bountiful Community Church are all interested in the information in this article and will plan to give some attention to this day of June 16. Jhis material of South Africa has been prepared by the United Church of Christ Implementation Committee on the Pronouncement on South Africa. June 16. is the tenth anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprisings and has been declared a worldwide day of Prayer and Fasting for an end to unjust rule in South Africa. Originally proposed by Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the call to pray June 1 6 for an end to apartheid also comes from the South African Council of Churches, Chur-ches, the World Council of Churches, Chur-ches, and the UCC Executive Council. The many events which have killed kil-led many people, have come to constitute a fundamental crisis in South Africa society which the authorities au-thorities are apparently incapable of resolving. They represent a phase of resistance which began March 21, I960 when the police killed kil-led many people and woulded more in the notorious Sharpeville shootings. shoot-ings. "Now on June 16, and 26 years after the dawning of this phase of resistance and protest, against an unjust system. It is also right that we as Christians reassess our response re-sponse to a system that all right-thinking right-thinking people identify as unjust. "We now pray that God will replace re-place the present structures of oppression with ones that are just, and remove those in power who persist in defying God's laws, installing in-stalling in their place, leaders who will govern with justice and mercy." mer-cy." kj |