(ENI) One of Africa's leading Anglican churchmen has called for a single Anglican Church to unite all of Africa's Anglicans.
The Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, gave the opening address to the hearing on the death penalty organised by Amnesty International this week.
Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been assured of the pastoral support of the Anglican Church and of the prayers of the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane.
No church in South Africa is exempt from the duty to confess its actions under apartheid, according to Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and now chairman of the nation's official Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which is investigating gross human rights violations committed during the apartheid regime.
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, has called for a national programme of fasting as a way of eradicating poverty.
The Anglican Diocese of Cape Town has called for an immediate and total prohibition on exports of South African armaments and on the services of mercenaries.
Cape Town city councillors have voted unanimously to grant the freedom of the city to their city's former archbishop, the Rt Revd Desmond Tutu.
Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Anglican Primate of Southern Africa, has expressed his condolences to all concerned in the tragic bus accident that occurred this week near Mandini in Natal in which more than 30 supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party were killed.
This statement is based on a keynote speech made at a conference preceding the meeting of the the heads of government of commonwealth countries, on Tuesday 21 October 1997.
A strong call has been made on international financial institutions to declare foreign debts owed by developing countries odious. The call was made in Washington, USA this week at a conference associated with the World Bank, by the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane.
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, has expressed his delight that the World Bank is to take steps that could see up to 80% of Mozambique's debt being written off.
A team of voluntary youth leaders from the Diocese of Melbourne is visiting South Africa in a cross-cultural leadership development programme as part of the mutual 150th anniversary celebrations of the Diocese of Melbourne and Cape Town.
Bishops of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa have called into question the practice of countries arming themselves to achieve military might and trade in machines of war, violence and conflict.
The Anglican Church in Southern Africa is to commemorate the coming of the new Millennium with a number of pilgrimages.
The Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) is planning to expand its work on the sub-continent by establishing a new diocese in war-torn Angola by the turn of the century.
What follows is a statement by the Primate of Southern Africa, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, regarding Mozambique and the highly indebted poor country initiative - issued in support of representations to be made to the IMF and World Bank during meetings next week.
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, has announced that he is planning to hold a major summit meeting on the eradication of poverty in the first part of next year.
South Africa's Anglican leaders have rebuked President Nelson Mandela's government for selling weapons on the international market and for buying military equipment with money which, the Church leaders say, is badly needed to alleviate poverty and to pay for social services like health and education.
Archbishops and representatives of Anglican Churches in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands met in Rosebank, Johannesburg, from Monday, to discuss issues affecting the Church on the continent and to consider challenges and opportunities facing it. They met in the shadow of the attack last week by security forces on people in All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya, and the confiscation by the Nigerian government of the passport of the Primate of the Church in Nigeria, Archbishop Joseph Adetiloye.
It was time for the sleeping giant of Africa to rise up and take its rightful place amongst the nations of the world, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, told Anglican Archbishops from Africa at a consultation in Johannesburg this week.
Churches should accept the "reality of homosexuality" and promote frankness as it cannot be wished away, according to the chairman of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Dr Barney Pityana.
South Africa's last state president under apartheid, F.W. de Klerk, had a tragic lack of insight into the evil of South Africa's racial segregation policy, the Anglican Bishop of Grahamstown, David Russell, said last week, 19 June.
Corruption in South African society is subverting and bedevilling the work of honest, caring policemen and women, the Anglican Primate and Archbishop of Cape Town, The Most Revd. Njongonkulu Ndungane, said on 8 June. if we allow prisoners to be released, only to commit a crime again and be returned to prison."
After they successfully participated in the peace making process that saw the signing of the historical peace accord in Rome in 1992 between the Mozambican Government and the rebel Movement-front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), the Mozambican Churches are now embarked on yet another national programme. This demilitarisation programme aims to swap weapons with farm implements, for example, for a better Mozambique, reports APS writer Osman Njuguna.
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa has become involved in a bitter public argument with the country's Minister of Correctional Services, who is responsible for overseeing prison management.
The debt burden of developing countries will feature high on the agenda of next year's Lambeth Conference according to the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has made a final call to South Africans who were involved in political criminal acts during the apartheid era to apply for amnesty before the cut-off date, on Saturday, 10 May.
Address by the Archbishop of Cape Town, The Most Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, at Southwark Cathedral, Thursday, April 24, 1997
Grace and peace to you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is good to be with you today as we approach the new millennium. There could not be a more appropriate place for this address than this great Cathedral which stands on a site where people have worshipped for more than a thousand years D a whole millennium.
About two years ago four quite ordinary women in Matola (south of Maputo) decided that something had to be done about the young girls, who lived on the verge of becoming street children. They knew that girls are much more vulnerable than boys and that living on the streets would affect the rest of their lives.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of the Province of Southern Africa, gave the opening prayer at a public Day of Prayer against Crime on 13 April. The day was organised by the police. The Archbishop said that South Africans were glad that under the government of President Nelson Mandela the police were now regarded as friends, no longer as the enemy of the people. The police service was now representative of, and there for all the people.
