Africa
African bishops say Anglicans in West strayed from God
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams arrives at a past Lambeth Conference in Cantebury.
Posted Tuesday, August 24 2010 at 15:19
ENTEBBE, Tuesday
The Anglican church in the West no longer adheres to the word of God, African bishops said Tuesday at a continental conference attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Rowan Williams, the head of the world-wide Anglican Communion, has been criticised by some African church leaders for his tolerant stance on homosexuality.
"Today, the West is lacking obedience to the word of God," Reverend Ian Ernest of Mauritius, the head of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, told journalists.
"It is for us (Africans) to redress the situation," he said, adding that he has severed all ties to the Episcopalian churches in Canada and the US that have allowed gays to enter the clergy.
The conference host, the Archbishop of Uganda Henry Luke Orombi, said African leaders would use the six-day meeting to voice the concerns about the "ailing church" to Williams.
"Homosexuality is incompatible with the word of God," Orombi said. "It is good (that) Archbishop Rowan is here. We are going to express to him where we stand. We are going to explain where our pains are."
Orombi also said that disputes over homosexuality had already divided the global Anglican community.
"There is already a break. It doesn't need to be announced. It is in the way people act," he said.
Williams delivered a sermon Tuesday during the opening of the meeting, the first of its kind since 2004.
While he did not mention homosexuality, he said it was the duty of all bishops to be open minded on contentious issues.
"We must learn to listen to those we lead and serve to find out what their hopes and needs and confusions are. We must love them and attend to their humanity in all its diversity," he said.
"We cannot assume we always know better and that we always have the right answer to any specific question."
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Submitted by Anonymous authorPosted August 25, 2010 05:14 PM
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Submitted by Mutashfull
muuikiomuingi kindly change your user name, and as much as you want to wish away God and the Bible so that you can do those ungodly things without feeling guilty, sorry,God and His word the Bible watches and judges every of your moves, words even thoughts and calls you a fool he who does not believe there is God.
Posted August 25, 2010 10:42 AM -
Submitted by Anonymous author
@AfricanAmerican. No it's not. Christianity was originally a cult that happened to be chosen as the recognized religion at a Bishop's meeting in Niacea. Some biblical events may have taken place in Africa, but not Sub-saharan Africa. Aethiopia mentioned in the bible was not in the present day Ethiopia. Kush, Kemet and other North African civilizations have little to do with OUR ancestors--the black Africans who originated from Central Africa. And you can tell that from the art, language, and culture. they bear little resemblance. Afrocentrics like yourself try hard to rewrite history.
Posted August 25, 2010 09:21 AM -
Submitted by Mulaika_Mwega
We need to first evangelize Europe and then civilise them through a positive colonial system
Posted August 24, 2010 09:59 PM -
Submitted by jnalyanya
Mumwe having a christian means nothing and it does not mean you are one really? Christians are followers of Jesus christ- immidate christ in every aspect, not the cleargy or church building as it is believed. Am sorry folks have made a place of worship to be a social place- but there is a true, religion and true worshippers of God, and true christinas out there who try to apply bible principles and teach what the bible really teaches. And they are Jehovah witnesses-like it hate or join them
Posted August 24, 2010 06:19 PM
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@Mutashfull. You don't need a God to be a good person. If i do good things so that I can earn my passage to heaven (which is what Christians do), am I not being selfish? It's such a self-serving act because I am not doing that out of my own freewill, but I do that because I expect to be rewarded with an everlasting life (plus the joy of seeing my old enemies burning in hell). I don't need religion to do "ungodly" things. we are masters of our own destiny, not some vangeful, angry, genocidal old man up there.