By Anglican Alliance staff
Zambian Anglicans’ food advocacy hit the headlines when they won Government backing in their call for the campaign for food security.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, arrived on Thursday afternoon in Blantyre, Malawi at the start of his visit to the Church of the Province of Central Africa.
By Matthew Davies, Episcopal News Service
A crippled nation at the mercy of tyrannical leaders, Zimbabwe is home to a persecuted yet resilient community of Anglicans who've been victimized, intimidated and run out of their own churches by a state-supported renegade bishop and his allies.
By Christopher Miti of The Post Online in Chipata
Bishop William Mchombo says the defeat of the two constitutional bills in Parliament gives an opportune time to leaders to retreat and reflect on the need to deliver a truly people-driven constitution.
Following the election of Bishop Albert Chama of Northern Zambia as the Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Central Africa on 17 February 2011 in Harare, Zimbabwe, the installation service will take place at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Lusaka in Zambia on Sunday 20 March 2011.
THE Livingstone Anglican Church Project (LACP) has withdrawn about 300 children in Zambia from various townships of the city who were previously engaged in child labour activities such as crushing of stones, director Emmanuel Chikoya has said.
At a speech in Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka on Sunday (31 October) Presiding Bishop of the Zambian Anglican Council William Mchombo marked the occasion of the Anglican Church in Zambia by celebrating its Anglican heritage, communion, impact on society and ethical standars.
In an extraordinary double ceremony, former USPG staff member Chad Gandiya was first consecrated bishop and then enthroned as the Bishop of the Diocese of Harare, part of the Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA).
In the cold of a Zimbabwe winter morning, more than 5,000 people packed into one of Harare’s sports arenas for a jubilant four-hour eucharist. The service was presided over by the dean of the province, Bishop Albert Chama, from Zambia.
The Church of the Province of Central Africa (the Anglican Church in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) announces that the Elective Assembly, composed of six clergy and six lay persons from the vacant diocese chosen at their last synod, three clergy and three lay persons from the Province and three bishops in addition to the Dean of the Province: twenty-two (22) persons in all, elected the Reverend Canon Dr Chad Nicholas Gandiya as the new bishop for the Diocese of Harare on Saturday 2nd May, 2009 at the Arundel School Chapel, Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Church of the Province of Central Africa (which is the Anglican Church in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana) announces that the Court of Confirmation of the new bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Upper Shire met on 16th April, 2009 at Chilema Conference Centre Chapel at Malosa.
The Archbishop of Burundi, the Most Revd Bernard Ntahoturi, recently led a 5-strong ecumenical delegation of church leaders from Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo that met with the presidents of the D.R. Congo and Rwanda in order to convey to them a strong message advocating for peace. "People are tired and want an end to the war," they said, "and dialogue costs much less than armed confrontation".
Christian emergency response organizations have expressed alarm at a deteriorating situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and about brutalities innocent civilians are facing in a potential humanitarian catastrophe.
Theme: God Our Refuge
Dear Sisters and Brothers
I am still under shock as I write this Pastoral letter. A young mother and her son about 10 years old appeared at the doorstep of our flat recently asking for food. After more than 40 years as a priest I know the difference between a professional street beggar and a hungry person genuinely asking for food. She was no street beggar at all. Going by her appearance she had not seen water to bathe for a long time. This young mother represents many others in our community today in Zimbabwe.
The controversial former bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, has been officially excommunicated, thereby stripping him of his ability to function as a cleric in the Anglican Church.
From the Dean of the Province on the withdrawal from the Province of Bishops Kunonga and Jakazi
As Dean of the Province of Central Africa I would like to make the following statement on the withdrawal from the Province of Bishop Nolbert Kunonga and Bishop Elson Jakazi and some of their supporters.
As the Provincial Secretary of the Church of the Province of Central Africa I would like to set the record straight in regard to the article that appeared in The Herald newspaper of September 10th 2007 entitled "Homosexuality breaks up Anglican Province":
Demonstration to be held during Mary's Day celebrations - 19th to 25th March 2007
At the Provincial Mothers Union meeting held at St. Augustine’s Mission, Penhalonga in Mutare Zimbabwe on 27th November 2006, the following resolution was made:
The Mothers Union were concerned with the threat of same sex marriages which is against our Biblical Teaching in that God created man and woman (Genesis Chapter 2 verse 22 to 25).
Furthermore this practice is against our cultural beliefs that, forbids same sex marriages.
The Revd Nicholas Henderson, currently Vicar of two west London parishes, All Saints, Ealing & St Martin's West Acton, has been elected as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Lake Malawi.
The Bishop of Lake Malawi, the Rt Revd Peter Nyanja, has died after a battle with cancer, the Nation Online has reported. He was due to retire in June and had been the diocese's longest serving bishop.
More here: http://www.nationmalawi.com/articles.asp?articleID=10145
The clergy have not been spared by HIV and AIDS, the Archbishop of Central Africa, the Most Revd Bernard Malango, has said.
Officiating at the Church's strategic planning workshop on HIV/AIDS under the theme 'Generation Born Without AIDS', Archbishop Malango said the Church had not been spared by HIV as some clergy were dying from the disease.
More here: http://allafrica.com/stories/200411290318.html
