Last Friday the Church Times reported the latest in the mendacious antics of the former bishop of Harare:
The disgraced former Bishop of Harare, the Rt Revd Nolbert Kunonga, reportedly resorted to forgery last week, in an attempt to block the appointment of Dr Sebastian Bakare as the diocese’s interim Bishop, and to blacken his name.
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The disgraced former Bishop of Harare, the Rt Revd Nolbert Kunonga, reportedly resorted to forgery last week, in an attempt to block the appointment of Dr Sebastian Bakare as the diocese’s interim Bishop, and to blacken his name.
Bishop Kunonga, whose attempts to withdraw Harare from the Province of Central Africa resulted in his own dismissal from the province, told the Harare Herald, a Mugabe-friendly newspaper, that Dr Bakare, retired Bishop of Manicaland, had turned down the appointment because the money was not good enough.
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It went on to quote “correspondence” between Bishop Albert Chama, Dean of the Province of Central Africa, and the “Anglican Church Harare Diocese”, allegedly sent to all the clergy and laity in the diocese.
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The Bishop of Botswana, the Rt Revd Trevor Mwamba, said that the letter, supposedly signed by Bishop Chama, was a forgery. “It is a propaganda warfare. Kunonga realises his time is finished, and is using the system because he is part of the system. It is lies upon lies — it is amazing how they have spun it out,” he said. “We wait to see what he will dream up next.”
Dr Bakare dismissed the report as a “complete fabrication and blatantly mischievous and misleading”.
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Bishop Kunonga travelled last week to Kampala, reportedly in at attempt to ally his breakaway group with the Church of Uganda.
Read more about the bishop’s machinations here.
Meanwhile, truly important news: Zimbabwean orphans of AIDS have made a recording of Christmas song available for download beginning December 10. Ekklesia reports
The single – Makandifira/Silent Night – features a 30-strong Zimbabwean children’s choir, all of them residents of Makumbi Children’s Home and either orphaned by AIDS or HIV positive, singing with the London Oratory School Schola (choir).
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Many of the children have come to stay at the Home having been found abandoned by the side of the road, left there by grandparents or other members of their extended family no longer able to cope with the burden of caring for these young orphans.