“Group pressure makes us go to moneylenders” to cover their microfinance loans, says Baleshwari, who goes by only one name, as does her sister. “We get small loans for 15 days to fill the gaps when we can’t pay. If you lag behind, the rest of the group members can’t get new loans.”
It wasn’t cleavage in the Anglican Communion.
Update: The bill will be debated in parliament next week according to APA. And then there is the case of the AMiA, the Rwandan branch
Compare the ACNA statement with the Church of Uganda statement and see if you don’t agree there is no difference.
The findings are in sharp contrast to those recorded in the USA, where 76 per cent say they are Christian and 26 per cent describe themselves as very religious. It comes just days after the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England, claimed that the Government treats worshippers as “oddities” and religion as a “problem”.
So what is this process of giving a soul to a building? Soul can incarnate progressively into a building as it progressively gains substance from wish, through idea, planning, constructional design, building and occupation. Each stage develops, deepens and extends that which had come before. They are not stages which alternate from aesthetic to practical but, with these aspects inseparable throughout, are stages of continuous process of incarnation into substance until we architects complete our task, leaving a shell for life which will continue to grow. . . .
There is much LGBT blood on the hands of the Church of England. Uganda is merely keeping alive those ancient uncouths, with help from the silence of Rowan Williams. Rowan Williams is no Michael Ramsey.