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.
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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.
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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
The Church in the Province of Uganda has condemned the increasing incidence of mob justice in the country. Rt Revd Charles Odrukami said that mob justice was an abuse of human rights and had caused several deaths.
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