Breakaway parishes awarded property
A Fairfax (Virginia) circuit judge has awarded a favorable judgment to a group of 11 Anglican churches that were taken to court last fall after breaking away from the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia in late 2006. …
Story from Julia Duin in The Washington Times.
Update: Statement from the office of the Presiding Bishop.
(Truro Church – logo above – is the largest of the churches involved.)
Good news is no news in Nnewi!
A funny thing happened in Nnewi, Nigeria, last week. (Nnewi is a bustling city in southeast Nigeria.) Archbishop Peter Akinola presided over a remarkable meeting of the Standing Committee of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), but nobody from the world media noticed.
It wasn’t that it was a closed or secret meeting – it’s hard to keep a gathering of a thousand church leaders quiet, and preparations had been public for months. So why didn’t any of them care?
For one thing, he didn’t talk about anything that would make a good headline; instead he focussed on a call to personal and corporate holiness. He told all those present that they were too attached to the ways of the world and they needed to change. …
Read the full article by CANA Bishop Martyn Minns. (Photo: Truro Church.)
See also the Church of Nigeria website.