Africa update

Zimbabwe: More Trouble for Anglicans
By CELIA W. DUGGER
The New York Times
May 22, 2008

Despite a Supreme Court order requiring that the renegade Anglican bishop Nolbert Kunonga, a supporter of President Robert Mugabe, share dozens of churches in Harare, the capital, with followers of Bishop Sebastian Bakare, church officials and parishioners said the police had continued to harass and lock out the bulk of the city’s Anglicans. “The police have continued to brutalize our people, which is sad,” said Bishop Albert Chama, the dean of the Anglican Province of Central Africa. “This is political interference. I’m sure the police are getting orders from above. They’re protecting Kunonga.”

Bishop Chama said Bishop Kunonga was excommunicated from the church last week because he had broken away to start his own church and failed to follow church canons. Zimbabwean security forces and state-sponsored youth militia have been cracking down on the political opposition and other independent groups, including the Anglican church, ahead of a June 27 presidential runoff.

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Failing to attend the Lambeth Conference is cowardly
by CHARLES NJONJO
COMMENTARY
Daily Nation (Kenya)
5/22/2008

MEMBERS OF THE ANGLICAN Church in Kenya would like to know why our bishops are not attending the Lambeth 2008 Conference.

Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi is reported as reasoning thus: “Lambeth 2008 should have been about a return to God in view of these realities, yet it’s obvious that won’t be the case. Canterbury has sanctioned homosexuality. We cannot be going there to keep up with its theological gymnastics.”

Is this not missing the point of Lambeth? Isn’t this cowardly?

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