Religion: Crackdown in South Africa

"No one who hasn't lived in a police state can understand what living in one is like," says Father Colin Davison. An Anglican priest in South Africa for seven years, Davison ran the educational program of the ecumenical, multiracial Christian Institute there. He was told to leave the country last month and is now back in England. Davison is not alone in his plight. Since Feb. 1, twelve clergymen, all foreign nationals, have been ordered out of South Africa in a harsh silencing of clerical voices that have been raised against apartheid.

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