White Men Worshipping at African Church in TikTok Video Divides South Africa

White Men Worshipping at African Church in TikTok Video Divides South Africa

  • A TikTok video of a church congregation went viral after people noticed the attendees
  • South Africans were raving after noticing the race of some of the members of an Apolistic church
  • The clip of the praise and worship session received thousands of views on TikTok as people speculated about the church members

One TikTok video of an African church service went viral on social media. The racial diversity of the church members fascinated viewers.

Racially diverse African church
A TikTok video of a racially diverse African church went viral. Image: @mpompos1mp
Source: TikTok

South Africans were in awe of the video of the church members the clip garnered thousands of likes. Thousands of viewers commented on the video about the Apolistic church.

In a video shared by @mpompos1mp, the church was in session, and foreign men were singing along. Two white men were among the apolistic church members who were deep into a praise session. Church members were beaming as they watched the reportedly Belgian men participating in the church service.

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South Africa's larrgest churches are Apolitsic
Apolistic churches are some of the biggest in South Africa. Image: Gallo Images
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Peeps were in awe of the church members' praise sessions. Others were unimpressed by the congregation and criticised the gathering. Watch the video of the church members below:

hi5 said:

"Wow, in front of God we are one."

Ricky 🇿🇦🇲🇿 commented:

"Even the people in the church are shocked. You gotta love South Africa."

megan wrote:

"😳 When I saw the pic, I thought it was edited, it's real after all 🤣."

Sis Sindi laughed:

"Trump won't be happy 🤣."

miss_lellz said:

"Next thing: Uncovering the deep secrets of African Churches, A Documentary 😂"

user9180442312843 said:

"South Africa will be beautiful if all of us can forget about politics and just live our life."

ledwabatebogo765 commented:

"That other one is so happy😅😭😭"

minenhlekhumalo69 remarked:

"Research paper topic:😭😭😭 decolonisation of African churches 🤣."

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Rutendo Masasi (Weekend Entertainment and Human Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 3 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za

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