According to the Church of England Newspaper last week: Anger over the Archbishop of Cape Town’s conduct toward his fellow African Archbishops may kill off plans for the 2008 Lambeth Conference to be held in Cape Town. While the invitation list and venue for Lambeth Conferences lie within the purview of the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Church of England Newspaper has learned that a number of conservative Primates will ask Dr Rowan Williams not to hold the next gathering of Anglican bishops in Cape Town. See African leaders want to block South Africa venue.
Wednesday’s Guardian has a column by Kenneth Stevenson, Bishop of Portsmouth, In defence of faith schools which responds to an earlier article Teaching tolerance which had the subhead “We should abolish faith schools - they breed only intolerance and isolation says Francis Beckett”.
Meanwhile, the BBC reports that the cathedral choir from Portsmouth has been, err, busy. Cathedral choir strips for calendar.
Another story in today’s Guardian is an Anglican one because it is an edited extract from the ninth annual Tyndale lecture, which Christina Odone gave last night at Lambeth Palace, Some may hate us, but here we stand.
Posted by Simon Sarmiento on Tuesday, 28 October 2003 at 9:49 AM GMT | TrackBack