Everyman

The White Christian's Burden (1978x15)

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Rhodesia is in a state of war: as in many other wars there are Christians supporting both sides. Is the Christian message political - or above politics? In Rhodesia the Christian mission has been one of the major influences on the present crisis: until recently 94 per cent of primary education consisted of mission schools. Almost every Black leader has had a Christian education. ' I'm a product of the Catholics ... the racial character of our society is un-Christian, it's inhuman.' (ROBERT MUGABE , president of ZANU) Today missionaries are dying in a war that both sides claim is inspired by Christian ideals. Everyman looks at the tragic impact of the war on the missionaries and their families and asks: What are they dying for?