RT Article
T1 Racism Cannot Be Explained – It Must Be Defeated: Reflections on 50 Years of the World Council of Churches’ Programme to Combat Racism
JF The ecumenical review
VO 73
IS 4
SP 535
OP 546
A1 Pityana, N. Barney 1945-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1775688518
AB Following the call by the Uppsala assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 1968 for an ecumenical campaign against racism, the WCC set up the Programme to Combat Racism (PCR) the following year with its Special Fund to provide grants to those oppressed by racism and the organizations that represented them. The grants to liberation movements fighting racism in Africa provoked controversy particularly among WCC member churches in Western Europe and North America. This article is a personal reflection on the experiences and achievements of the PCR, concluding with a reflection on the continuing challenge of racism today.
K1 Southern Africa
K1 Racism
K1 Apartheid
K1 Programme to Combat Racism
K1 World Council of Churches
DO 10.1111/erev.12639