Kunonga saga continues

Botswana Diocese Against Homosexuality
Mmegi (Botswana)
12 November 2007         

In a development that threatens to further tear apart the Anglican Church's Province of Central Africa, the church's clergy and laity in Botswana diocese have passed a vote of no confidence in their bishop over his pro-homosexuality stance and have consulted Harare diocese's anti-homosexual Bishop Nolbert Kunonga to help them map the way forward.

During a meeting with Bishop Kunonga at the St Stephen's parish church just outside Francistown, the Botswana diocese clergy and laity revealed that they had passed a vote of no confidence in the pro-homosexual Bishop Trevor Mwamba and had twice written to the province expressing their no confidence vote.

While expressing their support for Bishop Kunonga's stance in pulling out Harare over the homosexuality issue, the clergy and laity chronicled how in June they first wrote to the province voicing their concerns about their Bishop's stance.

"After getting no reply, we wrote again in September and we still have not received any response. We have passed a vote of no confidence in Bishop Mwamba because his values and ours are at variance. We don't support homosexuality," said a church member who identified herself only as Monimang Berea.

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