Sentences with phrase «black majority»

Even the phrase «black majority church» tends to mask the fact that those congregations are often made up of people from many different cultures.

The government denied black majority rule, resulting in violent protests.

Later, Sisulu and Mandela campaigned in the first truly multi-racial elections in South Africa and saw their dream of black majority rule fulfilled with Mandela's installation as State President of South Africa in 1994.

Patten says that concerns about inclusivity are coming from black majority church leaders too.

Perhaps Irukwu's prophecy of a day when black majority churches will be a thing of the past may not be so far away, as they are usually situated in ethnically diverse areas.

Many resented his choice to support the seizure of white people's land without compensation to the owners, which Mugabe insisted was the only way to level out the economic playing field for the disenfranchised black majority.

In the hands of the angry black majority, it unleashes acts of retaliation, riots, demonstrations and bombings.

Pilger elucidates that «the unspoken deal was that the whites would retain economic control in exchange for black majority rule.»

In December 1979, they reached an agreement that there be black majority self - rule.

Much has been written about how the explosion of movements such as Hillsong and the rise of London's black majority churches have contributed to Church growth in London.

In 1979, after Smith had tried in vain to reach an agreement with Mugabe, the British agreed to monitor the changeover to black majority rule and the UN lifted sanctions.

Someone with direct experience of how to bridge the divide is Rev Israel Olofinjana, author of Partnership in Mission: A black majority church perspective on mission and church unity (Instant Apostle).

When I interviewed pastor Agu Irukwu of Jesus House, one of the UK's largest black majority churches, for this magazine in 2012 he predicted that we won't speak of black majority churches in the future as our churches will be multicultural.

The black majority Church's praise and celebration style was beginning to really influence the UK Church worship and reflected their substantial growth as a movement mainly in the British cities, with worship leaders Noel Robinson, Mark Beswick and Muyiwa leading the way.

By personality as well as by performance, Oldfield has reached a centrist position in this environment — no small feat considering the black majority on the tour.

Many Zimbabweans agree that the black majority had to somehow take back the land.

In his press release Scala quotes, «In order to maintain the district's black majority, the new map would extend the eastern border into western Nassau County... Let me stop you right there Mike.

Greater Harlem doesn't even have a black majority anymore.

He probably would have done better, but he was running in a black majority district with a black incumbent, and Haldeman is white.

Today, the black majority stands at 52 % according to the latest census data.

Because these locales are so very different from one another, they give one a potentially rich opportunity to probe the determinants of success or failure: what difference did it make whether desegregation was being attempted in a depressed agricultural region with a black majority, a northern industrial city with a medium - sized black population, or a plains community with comparatively few African Americans?

De Klerk brokered the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and supported the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black majority, having equal voting and other rights.

In the end, is there any escape from the reality that the improvement of educational outcomes for a large section of the black population will have to take place, if it is to come about at all, in schools with a black majority?

His own profile picture on Facebook where he is displaying the flags of Apartheid - era South Africa and Colonial Rhodesia, both nations where minority white populations governed to the exclusion of the black majority, makes that clear: