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For the sake of the oppressed, move ahead

March 19, 2009 4 Comments

There is another way to be Church, to stand as some sort of beacon or model that flatly contradicts the oppressiveness of the Nigerian Church to its minorities and those who would copy its stance. There has to be a real, material, alternative: a way forward that gives a different vision. The Church clearly most able to do this is The Episcopal Church, closely followed by the Anglican Church of Canada.

American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan

March 18, 2009 No Comments

Introducing American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS). It’s been around since 2005. AFRECS’s goals are to:

Riot police at the altar, but Bishop of Harare carries on

March 17, 2009 No Comments

The Times reports that despite the provocations of riot police in church, Zimbabwe’s Anglican bishop, Sebastian Bakare, celebrated communion this past Sunday: In front of

Violence in Sudan: the LRA strikes

March 17, 2009 No Comments

This morning Tom Bair got a call frmo Ezo saying that on Friday the Lord’s Resistance Army attacked a village nine miles from Ezo, killing nine people and taking six hostages. This is the latest in a series of attacks that began late last year and have continued sporadically since then.

Anglicans call for vigilance regarding equal rights in difficult times

March 16, 2009 No Comments

The Anglican delegates to the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Woman have issued a call for the world’s governments and the leadership of the Anglican Churches to be careful to guard against any erosion of women’s status during the global economic crisis.

Minns, Duncan at HOB in Nigeria

March 14, 2009 3 Comments

Archbishop Peter Akinola reports that Martyn Minns and Robert Duncan are among the bishops at the Church of Nigeria House of Bishops meeting.

Minns and Duncan have the opportunity to speak out against the support Akinola and his church have given to a bill persecuting gays. Unless they do so, they are directly implicated.

Nigeria’s legal system adequate for persecution

March 13, 2009 1 Comment

Homosexuality is illegal under federal law; homosexual practices are punishable by prison sentences of up to 14 years. In the 12 northern states that have adopted Shari’a law, adults convicted of engaging in homosexual intercourse are subject to execution by stoning, although no such sentences were imposed during the year. Because of widespread taboos against homosexuality, very few persons were openly homosexual. – 2008 Human Rights Report: Nigeria, US Department of State

A dumb, depressing document from Peter Akinola and his Church

March 12, 2009 6 Comments

Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has the five-page document (signed by Peter Akinola) submitted by the Church of Nigeria in support of legislation that would outlaw same sex marriage, which is already illegal. It is chilling, especially the part where Akinola weighs in on just how long the prison sentences for the witnesses of gay marriages should be.

Nigeria once again considers harshly punitive anti-gay legislation

March 12, 2009 1 Comment

Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has an excellent round-up of recent developments in Nigeria’s attempts to ban gay marriage–which is already illegal.

Barbara Andrews, bishop-elect in Canada

March 10, 2009 2 Comments

The Anglican Churches of the Central Interior announces that after two ballots the delegates of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior elected The Rev.

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