09/03/2007
US Anglicans join Kenyan Church
By BBC News
US Anglicans join Kenyan Church The two men are the latest in a string of defections Kenya's Anglican Church has consecrated two US bishops in a move likely to deepen a bitter row over homosexuality. Bill Murdoch, of Massachusetts, and Bill Atwood, of Texas, will be answerable to the Kenyan Church, although they will serve in the US. They left the US branch of the Anglican Church - the Episcopal Church - after it consecrated an openly gay bishop. There are growing tensions within the Anglican denomination around the world, mainly over the issue of homosexuality.Click here for more information
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09/03/2007
Kenya consecration deepens Anglican rift
By Alex Kirby - BBC News
The consecration by Kenya's Anglican Church of two US bishops raises the temperature of the rancorous dispute dividing the two wings of the 70 million-strong Church: The bishops will be under Kenyan jurisdiction but serve in the US liberal Anglicans, who are happy to accept gay and lesbian people as bishops, and traditionalists, who are deeply opposed. But what Kenya's Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi has done is not simply about homosexuality. It goes to the heart of the way the Anglican Church sees itself. Anglicans, like Catholic and Orthodox Christians, cherish the unity of their Church above almost everything else. And the focus of unity is the bishop.Click here to read the entire article
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08/27/2007
Slideshow: Chinese manufacturing web in Africa
By Magi Griffin
China's presence in Africa, physically and heavily funded, was obvious in Tanzania. The Chinese are prominent in infrastructure projects including roads and railways, mining fossil fuels and textile related industry. Many countries have touted benefits. But at what cost?
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08/20/2007
Anglican Priest Leads Services in "dinka"
By NYTimes Video
http://video.on.nytimes.com/index.jsp?fr_story=c82b6182483f24af8c0795b4bf2d9178438277fc
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