The Vatican said Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI’s decision moving the wartime pope Pius XII closer to sainthood was not a “hostile act” against those who believe Pius did not do enough to stop the Holocaust.
The alternatives explain 99.5% of the difference in per capita income between the U.S. and Somalia.
For a Christian, no matter how many carefully culled Bible passages might be cited, no matter how lofty the spokesperson, there are no circumstances whatsoever that justify such oppression. The Anglican Communion is clearly on record supporting this view. Among others, I make reference to the actions of several Lambeth Conferences as well as to statements from the Primates Meetings, most recently their Dromantine Communiqué of 2005.
Ugandans at an anti-gay protest in Kampala held up “Barack Omaba Back Off” signs. Ssempa said: “They (the task force) have condemned the efforts of the American president, Barrack Obama, and Hilary Clinton, for using the pulpit of the White House to preach a gospel of sodomy.”
Go forward in your time machine to a few years from now and imagine seeing on eBay or Trade Me: “For Sale, one partly used Anglican Covenant – owner hoping to recoup at least some of the significant amount of money and hope invested in it. – Bosco Peters
Joining in supporting the diocese in its case before the Virginia Supreme Court are its sister dioceses, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Church of Brethren, and the Seventh-Day Adventists.
A member of The Family in the U.S. says that members of The Family in Uganda were against the anti-homosexuals bill even before it was introduced.
The snow of last week blanketed the Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration in white.
World Council of Churches general secretary, The Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from the Methodist Church in Kenya has written a Letter to the Uganda President. The letter raises concerns regarding the Anti Homosexuality Bill. The WCC brings together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries.
Doesn’t it just look like a Politburo! Democratic centralism is a means by which one layer of a party (which is infused into a bureaucracy) elects the next layer up, but we all know how that conserves a system. It also hands out edicts, from the top down.