SOUTH AFRICA
Sowetan
By Mogomotsi Selebi | Mar 14, 2015
THE SA Council of Churches has admitted that recent reports of pastors criminally charged with sexual offences were of great concern to them.
Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana from the council warned that lack of accountability on the part of church leadership often led to such incidents.
Mpumlwana’s comments came as a 45-year-old pastor was due to appear in the Bultfontein Magistrate’s Court in Free State today on a charge of rape.
“We are absolutely concerned, but what I would like to say is that, a criminal is a criminal.
“There is no ‘special criminal’ regardless of whether the person is a pastor or not,” Mpumlwana said.
“There is a growing tendency for people to use the trust of the people and to also abuse that trust. One is reminded of the false prophets.”
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