Manifesting the grace of God to those with HIV or AIDS

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Manifesting the grace of God to those with HIV or AIDS
 
Creator van Wyngaard, Arnau
 
Subject Missiology, AIDS AIDS; HIV; grace; home-based care; religion; stigma; Swaziland
Description ‘The most terrible poverty is loneliness and feeling unloved’ (Mother Teresa). Swaziland is in the unenviable position of having the highest HIV infection rate in the world, with an adult prevalence rate of 42%. This is a national crisis which, in the Swaziland context, has led to feelings of severe hopelessness and rejection and which needs to be addressed through a multidisciplinary approach. The church is in the unique position to demonstrate the love and grace of God in the midst of this pandemic. A small congregation of the Swaziland Reformed Church situated in the southern Shiselweni district of the country decided to take up this challenge. This article showed what the effects could be when the church becomes a vessel of love and grace within the community.
 
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Date 2014-04-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literary Analysis
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ve.v35i1.780
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 35, No 1 (2014); 7 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/780/2030 https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/780/2042 https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/780/2044 https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/780/2043
 
Coverage Swaziland — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Arnau van Wyngaard https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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