Uganda’s Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Butoro says that stories of persecution of gays and lesbians in his country are lies. He also expects the infamous “kill-the-gays” bill to pass Uganda’s legislature “in due course.”
The toured the United States is among the targeted with his photo on the front page.
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town spoke of the continuing damage done to both white and black South Africans by the “dehumanizing” effect of the struggle against apartheid. In particular he named the emotional and spiritual consequences for white South African men who were conscripted to fight for apartheid.
One congregation in Chitungwiza had just completed building a church in Unit M when two weeks ago police with “orders from above” pounced. They ordered the congregants to leave the church and Bishop Nolbert Kunonga possessed it. Now he has given one of his followers the right to the property.
The author of “The Family” and the new book “C Street” visited with Episcopal Café about his research. Conversation ranged from the secretive work of Doug Coe to the potential for genocide in Uganda.
Participants in the conference convened by the Anglican Church in Juba urged sustainability of peace and reconciliation between the North and the South irrespective of the referendum outcome.
The Province of Kenya
An Ecuadoran bishop with links to the Southern Cone Diocese of Recife thinks Zimbabwe Bishop Nolbert Kunonga is just fine. Kunonga is allied with Robert Mugabe, and has used the government to lock faithful Anglicans out of their own churches. Bishop Crespo of Ecuador has been arrested for arms smuggling in the past.
Now that the 2nd All Africa Bishops’ Conference is all but ended, a flurry of communications has arrived at our electronic transom.
Through the lens of the missionary hotbed that is Uganda, Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, reports on the deadly consequences of evangelicals’ antigay exports