Category: The Lead

More news from Zimbabwe

The food is taken from the people. If your home is selected for a donation you must either give them Z$10 billion, or 10Kg of maize meal, or you are beaten. In the better off townships this is going on, but on a smaller scale. They seem to target the poorest of the poor.

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Traces of the Trade airs tonight

…the DeWolf name has been honored through generations, both in the family’s hometown of Bristol, R.I., and on the national stage. Family members have been prominent citizens: professors, writers, legislators, philanthropists, Episcopal priests and bishops. Traces of the Trade reveals their deep involvement in the slave trade.

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Schism tide recedes

The prospect of schism in the worldwide Anglican Church receded as African leaders meeting in Jerusalem stepped back from the brink and declared they are not seeking to start a new church.

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Observations about GAFCON

The Guardian has an editorial that says that if Anglican unity is to be maintained, it cannot be for its own sake. Stephen Bates says that those taking part in the conference in Jerusalem are united only by the one thing they all hate.

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Cracks appearing at GAFCON

The people gathered on the Mount of Olives were united in voice as they sang their officially approved hymns, but on the second day of a conference which has laid bare the divisions in the Anglican communion over homosexuality, notes of discord could already be heard.

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