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PAGE 12 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 23, 1987 South African Bishops Protest New Restrictions ■ BY CARMEL RICKARD DURBAN, South Africa (NC) — Catholic bishops in South Africa have strongly criticized new regulations which make it an offense to take part in any campaign, project or action aimed at the release of detainees held under security laws. .Bishop Wilfred Napier, head of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Con ference, called the regulations “draconian by any standard” and said the church “will not tolerate them.” “The government is even seeking to restrict what the church can or cannot pray or hold services for," he said in a statement released April 14. “The government has made a serious mistake,” he said. “It should scrap the new regulations in their entirety." The new regulations declare unlawful any form of “calling” on the government to release detainees. They also outlaw "the performance of any act as a symbolic token of solidarity with or in honor of” de tainees. Archbishop Stephen Naidoo of Cape Town, South Africa, said he was outraged by the restrictions, which appeared to “prohibit public praying for detainees.” “This I cannot accept,” said Archbishop Naidoo. “Certainly in this diocese we will not accept it. The state is trying to take away our right to decide for whom we shall pray. With regard to public prayer, we will not accept it.” Archbishop Naidoo and Anglican Arch bishop Desmond Tutu of Cape Town held a joint service in St. George’s Anglican Cathedral April 13 to protest the new restrictions. U.S. and British representatives were among diplomats attending the lunchtime service. U.S. Ambassador Edward Perkins, one of those who attended, later released a statement which said the regulations put freedom of speech and movement “in serious jeopardy.” South African Minister of Foreign Af fairs Pik Botha said he would ask his department to “look at the attendance” of Perkins at the service and to look at his statement. The evening after the service South Africa’s police commissioner, Gen. Johan Coetzee, published an “explanation” of the intent of the regulations. He denied they were intended to apply to “prayers offered at a bona fide religious gathering.” But Bishop Napier said Coetzee's state ment was “a confidence trick.” “We are not impressed with the latest explanations,” he said. “We have seen it happen before: imposition of strict restric tions followed by backpedalling and later stricter enforcement, once the dust has settled.” He said the explanation was clearly in tended to “create a convenient loophole to avoid having to act against senior church leaders” such as Archbishops Tutu, Naidoo and Denis Hurley, who have called for the release of the detainees. Bishop Napier said the government issued the explanation because it was “afraid to face the wrath of Christians on election day who will not tolerate a govern ment that usurps the right to decide the matters for which Christians may pray to their God.” South Africa has scheduled a whites-only election May 6. Meanwhile, organizers said they plan ned to go ahead with an ecumenical ser vice for detainees in Durban on Good Fri day, April 17. Archbishop Hurley, Anglican Bishop Michael Nuttall of Durban and other leading Christian ministers were to con duct the service, which was to include a special prayer for detainees. The service also was scheduled to in clude a procession during which par ticipants planned to carry crosses to repre sent children in detention in South Africa. FREE THE CHILDREN — Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa, carrying a large wooden cross, leads a Good Friday pro cession of 600 through a Durban street. Participants carried 49 smaller crosses symbolizing the children being detained by the government and appealing for their release. (NC photo from UPI-Reuter) Catholic, Anglican Sentenced BY CARMEL RICKARD PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (NC) — An Anglican student has been sentenced to death and a Catholic social worker sentenced to jail for their roles in a June 1986 car bombing in which three people were killed. Robert McBride, a 23-year-old student at a Durban teachers’ college, received three death sentences in a Pieter maritzburg court April 13. Greta Applegren, 30. was sentenced to five years in jail but will spend less than two years behind bars because of suspended or concurrent sentences. The two were on trial on I’m Italy First class & deluxe 15 day — All inclusive tours — ITALIAN FEVER ITALY IN "New" SICILIAN FEVER ITALY A BEST OF ITALY SWITZERLAND Italian/French THE ELITE Riviera from $1959 4o»»afai»«a t« per person 470 Commonwealth Avenue Boston. 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