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In one of the occasional letters which are sent out by the head of the World Council of Churches, Emilio Castro, he discusses violence and terrorism, especially in relation to South Africa. Castro's racism and bitter hatred of the South African government are evident in the following excerpts from this strange letter:

ECUVIEW/Emilio Castro: "Reflections on Violence" ...The Central Committee declared in 1971 that "the WCC does not and cannot identify itself completely with any political movement, nor does it pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances and so open the way for a new and more just social order."...

[Another] affirmation invites churches, governments and public opinion to relate to these [liberation] movements as representing the aspirations of the majority of the people in South Africa. Through the Special Fund of the Programme to Combat Racism, the WCC has long given money for humanitarian aspects of the work of liberation movements in southern Africa. The main value of these gifts is not financial but the moral recognition of these movements as legitimate representatives of the oppressed...

The nature of the South African regime... [compels] the South African people and the liberation movements to the use of force along with other means to end oppression... to define the liberation movements as "violent" is an injustice to them and to the people of South Africa. The use of force is a painful but minor expression of their resistance... far more fundamental to their struggle...

While agonizing together over the problem of violence in South Africa, let us not forget our own vocation in the particular situations we are in... The central issue is not methodology but the recognition of equal dignity of all God's children. (Ecumenical Press Service, 26-30 September 1987)

Do you understand what these frightful statements mean? The head of the World Council of Churches is saying that the bloody terrorism of African groups such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Southwest African People's Organization (SWAPO) is "a painful but minor expression of their resistance"! What is he speaking of? He is referring to the hundreds of innocent, law-abiding black citizens of South Africa who have been hacked to pieces, burned, shot, and bombed by the communist terrorists who are trying to overthrow the government.

Through the WCC's so-called Program to Combat Racism, hundreds of thousands of dollars has been given to these and other communist murderers, and the head of the WCC has the gall to say this blood money is "humanitarian" and "moral."

In one short period from September 1985 to June 1986, the WCC-supported communists in South Africa butchered 600 of their own black people by "necklacing." Even so, Castro calls for churches to channel more money to these same terrorists.

Perhaps some of our readers do not know what "necklacing" is. The communists in South Africa use this unspeakably horrible method of murder to terrorize the people and make them afraid to resist the communist program. When a local leader or influential person refuses to bow to the demands of the communists, the "humanitarian" butcherers capture that person, tie his hands or cut them off, put a petrol-soaked rubber automobile tire around his neck and set it afire. Of course there is nothing anyone can do to help the person and he dies a painful death as he is engulfed in the fire, melting rubber and acrid smoke.

The WCC leader says it is an injustice to label this as violence! What an upside-down world these ecumenists live in! If the tire was around his own neck and the match being lit, I wonder if Castro would continue to say his should not be called violence! I wonder if he would continue to say we should not pass judgment on such deeds?

Friends, there is not a more wicked, deceitful institution on earth than the World Council of Churches. How can a true child of God have anything to do with such an apostate organization? God says touch not the unclean thing. "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins" (Numbers 16:26; see also Revelation 18:4 and 2 John 8-11).