24 years after the Johannesburg meeting and following the meetings in Kenya (2008), Rwanda (2012) and Benin (2016) young people from Southern Africa and beyond are invited to set out to celebrate and witness together their faith. They will be welcomed by families and local Christian communities.
The next African stage of the Pilgrimage of Trust on the Earth will take place at the southern tip of the continent, in Cape Town from 25 to 29 September 2019. 24 years after the Johannesburg meeting and following the meetings in Kenya (2008), Rwanda (2012) and Benin (2016) young people from Southern Africa and beyond are invited to set out to celebrate and witness together their faith. (...)
Every year dozens of South Africans stay in Taizé and participate in international meetings. Today it is several generations who have been able to experience the common prayer and fraternity lived with the community, a parable of communion. Brother Roger himself was always very attentive to their presence because of the long trial of apartheid that their country was going through, but more (...)
On the 3rd of August 2017, two brothers met with Archishop Desmond Tutu in Volmoed, an ecumenical retreat Centre in the Western Cape. He remembered his first visit to Taizé. “I visited Taizé in 1979, when I was Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches. I was deeply moved to find myself among five thousand young people from all corners of the globe, coming together across (...)
Two brothers from the Taizé Community, based in Cape Town, visited the Eastern Cape province during the last week of June and the first week of July. "Our first stop was to attend a meeting in East London with people engaged with young people in difficult situations (such as poverty, drug ...), we went to Alice, to attend the Synod of the URCSA (Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa), (...)
"I am ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church. It is the Church that is at the origin of apartheid, the Church of the old rulers of this country. They are the ones who thought about and developed the ideology of racial division. Our story is a story of segregation. This is the truth in which we as a church has to serve, both coming to terms with our sin and becoming a true part of Africa. This (...)
Reflections on trust towards the Pilgrimage of trust 2019, Taizé - Cape Town.A pilgrimage is an experiment in building, experiencing and learning to live life in trust. From the moment we leave home, boarding the bus, catching the train or plane, for Cape Town we will find ourselves moving across boundaries, from the familiar to the unfamiliar, from home to the hospitality of strangers, from (...)
Reflections on trust towards the Pilgrimage of trust 2019, Taizé - Cape Town.Ntombekhaya has spent three month in Taizé (France), from February to May 2018. She shares some of her reflections and expectations around the upcoming meeting in Cape Town: I expect the 2019 Pilgrimage of Trust in South Africa to help young people to connect their diversities. Coming from a very diverse city such as (...)