Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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":

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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. 

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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.

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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

The Church of the Province of Central Africa has held an election for a Diocesan bishop in Lusaka after the Rt Revd Leonard Mwenda retired. The Most Revd Bernard Malango, the Primate of Central Africa, conducted the election in Lusaka at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and later announced that the Very Revd David Njovu, the cathedral's dean, had been elected.

David Njovu, who was the first black Dean of the Lusaka Cathedral, is aged 43. The consecration of the new bishop will take place in August 2004.

This year's Mothers Day was celebrated differently by the Anglican Diocese of Southern Malawi. They took time to share love with women living with HIV/AIDS and those who have been affected. Diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd James Tengatenga led the Mothers Union in ministering to those affected and sharing Eucharist with them at the Holy Church in Blantyre, Malawi.

Bishop Tengatenga encouraged the Mothers Union to begin income-generating activities to raise funds to help AIDS orphaned children and widows who he said were most affected. He advised the women to teach unmarried women abstinence since it was the surest way of checking the spread of AIDS.

It is estimated that up to one million people out of a population of 10 million are infected by HIV in Malawi, with many having developed full-blown AIDS.

Article By Hamilton Vokhiwa