An al Qaeda group in North Africa has offered to give Nigerian Muslims training and weapons to fight Christians in the West African country, where more than 460 people were killed in sectarian clashes last month.
“Highlight of the event was the presentation of the keys to a duplex, located at Gudu District of Abuja Metropolis and a Mercedes Benz E300 car to Akinola by the church.”
The Rt. Rev. Peter Imasuen, bishop of the Diocese of Benin, who was kidnapped 5 days ago has been freed. Nigerian news Vanguard reports:
Anglicans from Harare will next Sunday hold prayers at Africa Unity Square in central Harare to press the police to allow the church access to its halls and buildings across the capital.
Several sources are now reporting on the abduction of The Rt. Rev. Peter Imasuen, bishop of the Diocese of Benin, in the Anglican Church of Nigeria.
“Jos is a state where different interests, different nationalities came together to form a vibrant state. You cannot rule out the issues of competition for power. To me, it is a competition for power among different groups. It’s purely issues of poverty, power and religion,” ~Director-general of Jos-based National Institute for Strategic Studies, Dan Fulani Ahmed.
As we debate Bahati’s bill, we will learn that the factors that shape human sexuality are complex and we should therefore not kill anyone because they are different. We should punish those who sexually molest children and those who rape – not because of their sexual orientation but because they violated some else’s rights while seeking sexual gratification.
The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada as well as the Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have sent a statement conveying a ‘deep sense of alarm’ over Uganda’s proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
“The state has no business with what people do in their bedrooms. What two consenting adults do, the state has no business… absolutely! It is discriminatory. Me, I don’t understand this idea of “African values.” ~ Chris Opoka of the Ugandan Peoples Congress