The future may rest in Africa
Posted on June 16, 2008
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The Lambeth Conference is held every 10 years by Anglicans worldwide to celebrate, pray and work out issues that are bound to arise in any large family. That is, until now. …
At least four Anglican provinces – Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda – are expected to stay away next month because of what they see as the Church’s drifting into permissiveness and sin, especially in North America. Those four national churches not only represent a startling 30 million members – more than a third of the total global membership – but also the region likely to become the new spiritual centre of the faith. The numbers help tell the tale: Canada and the United States are closing churches as membership plummets; in Africa, they cannot build churches fast enough to keep up with demand. …
– Story by Charles Lewis, National Post, Canada.
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