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Lutheran World Federation honors former South African president as one of the " most inspiring personalities of our time "LWI) - In an assessment of Nelson Mandela , who died at the age of 95 years yesterday, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF ) has the former South African president attributed to " the most inspiring personalities of our time ."
" Praying together with his family , the people of South Africa and with people around the world and we mourn , but we must remember also happy and grateful of personality and of this great man's achievements ," it says in a LWF President Bishop Dr Munib A. Younan and LWF General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge today together with the declaration .
" He represented loyalty to principles , fought for justice, peace seemed " stressed the LWF Representative in condolence to Mandela's death, which was from 1994 to 1999 the first democratically elected President of South Africa .
Under the apartheid regime in South Africa, Mandela was judicially convicted of trying to overthrow the then government by force. After 27 years in prison , he came in 1990 to pressure a global campaign freely . It was founded in 1993 together with former President Frederik W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
He " devoted ... his life to the construction of a new South Africa - a country in the eyes of the law all are equal, in which racial discrimination and apartheid have no place in which , in the words of Martin Luther King , the people of the nature of their character and be judged by the color of their skin " not declared boy and Younan .
During his imprisonment, Mandela had steadfast faith in the righteousness of the struggle that the African National Congress led against apartheid , and that he would be last victorious.
" He taught the white South Africans - yes, all South Africans - they all have their place in the new South Africa. The dignity of all should be respected , all should enjoy the protection of the Constitution , all should have full civil rights , "said the statement.
Mandela, who voluntarily stepped down at the end of his first term as president was to have been aware that for a lasting peace in South Africa reconciliation was essential and that there was no room for vengeance on the one hand yet on the other hand it to wipe away and pretend the past that there is no crime had been .
" He understood that a people a people without a future without memory" , it turned out the LWF statement . Through the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Mandela had undergone a process of confession and forgiveness of sin possible so that South Africa could go in the future.
Joined the LWF Representative: " Thank God for Nelson Mandela ! "
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