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What is the name of the country where Christian politics played a role in the 1980s?
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The country where Christian politics played a role in the 1980s is New Zealand. Mainline Protestant churches became involved with ending sporting contacts with South Africa during the apartheid era (c. 1948–1994), culminating when many liberal Protestants and Catholics participated in mass protests against the New Zealand Rugby Football Union's 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand.