Human chain: Sheikh Sayed Haroon Al Azhari; the
Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, and Moulana Sayed Imraan
Ziyaee join hands on Mandela Day, on Thursday of last week, to
symbolise Nelson Mandela's dream of a unified, non-racial South
Africa
Human chain: Sheikh Sayed Haroon Al Azhari; the
Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, and Moulana Sayed Imraan
Ziyaee join hands on Mandela Day, o...
Zimbabwe election peace-plea
THE national elections of 31 July must not be marred by a repeat
of the bloodshed of 2008 (News, 4
April, 2008), church leaders in Zimbabwe said this week. The
Bishop of Harare, the Rt Revd Chad Gandiya, called on all people to
"shun violence", and for Christians to bring harmony to the
country. The Zimbabwe Council of Churches expressed concern about
attempts to divide churches for political gain.
'Pall' cast over bankrupt Detroit
THE bankruptcy filing by the city of Detroit had cast a "pall of
uncertainty" over a region still trying to recover from race riots
dating back to the 1960s, the Bishop of Michigan, the Rt Revd
Wendell N. Gibbs Jr, said at the end of last week. Court papers
filed on Thursday of last week listed 100,000 creditors. Bishop
Gibbs also spoke of the outcome of the trial of George Zimmerman,
describing it as "a major red flag that the struggle for racial
equality is far from over" (News, 19 July).
Tengatenga to move to US
THE Bishop of Southern Malawi, the Rt Revd James Tengatenga, has
tendered his resignation, and will take up a post as Dean of the
William Jewett Tucker Foundation, the centre for chaplaincy and
spirituality at Dartmouth College, in January, it was announced
last week. He will see out his term as chairman of the Anglican
Consultative Council and Anglican Communion Standing Committee,
which ends in 2016.
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