Good news is no news in Nnewi!

Posted on April 4, 2008 
Filed under News

Bishop Martyn MinnsA 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.