Africa Dutch Reformed History Reformed

Reformed churches in Africa date from Dutch settlement in South Africa in 1652 as well as from settlements by Huguenot and German Reformed refugees somewhat later. With British occupation in South Africa in 1806 Scots brought Presbyterianism. By the late 20th century half of the Presbyterian and Reformed membership in Africa was in the Republic of South Africa. White Dutch Reformed churches have been closely identified with the government policy of apartheid. At the meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in Ottawa, Can., in 1982 apartheid was declared heresy. Two of the white Reformed denominations then were suspended from the alliance, and the Reverend Allan Boesak, a Colored Reformed pastor and leader of the anti-apartheid forces, was named president of the World Alliance. A confessional statement, the Kairos Document, drawn up in 1985 by Reformed, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, and other church leaders, affirmed a theology unconditionally opposed to the state theology of South Africa. It has been compared to the 1934 Barmen Confession in Germany calling for resistance to the state. Other African nations with large Presbyterian church membership include Madagascar, Kenya, Congo (Kinshasa), Cameroon, Malawi, Egypt, and Ghana. Churches from 16 other African nations belong to the World Alliance.

• Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria - A short history of this denomination with over dutch reformed 150,000 members.
• South Africa - Religion and Apartheid - A history of the Dutch Reformed Churches and history apartheid.
• Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa - A short history and a doctrinal statement of africa this denomination.
• Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa - Wikipedia article on this Dutch Reformed mission church dutch reformed in history South Africa.
• Reformed Church of East Africa - A short history of this denomination of over dutch reformed 200 parishes with over 100,000 members.
• The Dutch Reformed Church and Apartheid - History of the denomination and the ideology and africa practice of dutch reformed apartheid.
• Afrikaner Christianity - A history of the Dutch Reformed churches in South Africa.

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