From The Point for Freedom and Democracy: Speaking last Thursday at a victory celebration held at the Buffer Zone in Tallinding, President Jammeh said that
Thinking Anglicans has a statement from the Church of Nigeria in which the director of communications, the Venerable Akintunde Popoola (or AkinTunde, both spellings are
Anglican Mainstream reports the Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, Presiding Bishop of the Middle East and Jerusalem, has written that he will not be attending GAFCON.
Referring to the agitation for the creation of Obosi Diocese, the chancellor made it categorically clear that no diocese would be created in an atmosphere of rancour and bitterness.
Services in more than a dozen tongues – including English and Arabic, but most of them South Asian such as Urdu, Tagalog, Tamil or Malayam – fill not only the main church from 6 am to 11 pm but the 25 other halls built around a central courtyard adorned with a Canterbury cross.
Recently two researchers at the University of British Columbia concluded that 6.5 to 16.5 percent of children’s happiness can be accounted for by their spirituality. They asked 315 children to describe their daily spiritual experiences by rating statements such as “I feel a higher power’s presence,” and answering questions including “How often do you pray or meditate privately outside of church or other places of worship?”
Christ, why do you allow wars and massacres on earth? By what mysterious judgement do you allow innocent people to be cruelly slaughtered? I cannot know. I can only find assurance in the promise that your people will find peace in heaven, where no one makes war. As gold is purified by fire, so you purify souls by these bodily tribulations, making them ready to be received above the stars in your heavenly home.
Six prayers have been written for teachers, primary school children and secondary pupils. One written for teachers says: “I don’t suppose that you have time for this, Lord, but I am nervous. Not for myself, but for my class.
The team that was sent to (the delta) has confirmed widespread damage and extensive loss of life. In some places, entire villages have been devastated, with few if any survivors. In other places, survivors have huddled together in makeshift shelters awaiting aid.
The Episcopal Church Center sponsored a press conference today on the Lambeth Conference featuring the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal