Following up on a story first posted by Mark Harris, and reported on the Café here, The Church of England Newspaper reports that the Anglican
Recovery teams in New Zealand reports that no bodies were found in the rubble of the tower of the ChristChurch Cathedral that was destroyed in last week’s earthquake.
Kunonga dismissed the bishops’ allegations telling the Zimbabwe Independent yesterday: “Be careful of doing useless things.? If someone wants to be assassinated, they will just be assassinated. I don’t do such things.”
After waiting one month without an explanation of the allegations from the Attorney General and upon the recommendation of legal counsel, Bishop Dawani has chosen to take his case to court seeking redress through the Israeli legal system.
Across the globe, across the Communion, we actually really need one another. We are stronger in relationship than when we are apart. This, we believe, is a work of engaging in Communion building rather than Communion breaking. In the words of the Toronto Congress of 1963 we are engaged in living in “mutual responsibility and interdependence” (Ephesians 2:13-22).
From Anglican Taonga: Thousands gathered in Christchurch yesterday to worship and pay their respects to those killed in last Tuesday’s earthquake.
Israel’s Interior Ministry has revoked the permit for the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, to live in Jerusalem, and has refused requests to reinstate it, in spite of protests by Anglican authorities in the West specifically the United States.
Bishop Minns heard from both Archbishop Nicholas Okoh and Registrar Abraham Yisa who were surprised to see a recent report in the Nigerian media that Okoh said that CANA is no longer part of the Church of Nigeria. Bishop Minns is not said to be surprised.
Under the current system elderly recipients sometimes get organs from much younger donors whose kidneys could have provided far more years of healthy life to younger, heathier patients. Younger patients can receive older or less-healthy organs that wear out more quickly, forcing them back onto the transplant list in a few years.
The South African government looks as if it is paralyzed, numb with fear of offending the “Brother Leader”. For the sake of humanity, in line with the principles of ubuntu, I call on them to speak out more strongly against his violations of international humanitarian law. Even the African Union has condemned Libya for using “indiscriminate and excessive use of force and lethal weapons against peaceful protesters”. Will the South African government not at least follow suit?