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Post by angli_fan on Sept 23, 2006 6:38:37 GMT -5
(from The Living Church) Primates and other leaders from the Global South coalition of Anglican provinces said the time had come to begin creating “a separate ecclesiastical structure of the Anglican Communion in the U.S.A.” The statement was part of a communiqué released at the conclusion of a Sept. 19-22 meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.
The communiqué, endorsed by representatives from 20 of the Communion’s 38 provinces, stopped short of a formal break with The Episcopal Church as advocated by some leaders of the Global South prior to the start of the meeting, and the final statement suggested significant differences of opinion over The Episcopal Church’s status and continued relations within the Communion.
The statement asked the “Global South Steering Committee,” led by the primates of Nigeria and South East Asia, and the Bishop of Egypt, to develop a plan for a parallel church in consultation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the primates’ meeting, the Lambeth Conference and the Anglican Consultative Council.
The 75th General Convention “gave no clear embrace of the minimal recommendations of the Windsor Report,” they said, further noting Bishop Schori held views “in direct contradiction of Lambeth 1.10 and the historic teaching of the Church.”
A common response to Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts Schori eluded the Global South. Some would “not be able to recognize Katharine Jefferts Schori as a Primate at the table with us,” while “others will be in impaired communion with her as a representative of The Episcopal Church.”
A further group, unidentified in the communiqué, but believed to center around Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Southern Africa, recognized Bishop Schori and remained in communion with The Episcopal Church.
The Kigali communiqué asked Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to resolve this tension by inviting to the February primates’ meeting in Tanzania “another bishop” chosen by the dioceses of The Episcopal Church which have requested alternative primatial oversight “so that we might listen to their voices during our deliberations.”More at:www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=2501 |
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Post by angli_fan on Sept 23, 2006 10:11:48 GMT -5
Responses are coming in to "Global South" Kigali Statement:American Anglican Council Commends Bold Kigali Communique“The Kigali Communiqué is an action plan attesting to the Global South’s visionary leadership in a time of chaos and crisis in our beloved Communion,” said the Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, American Anglican Council (AAC) President and CEO. “It is sure to inspire and encourage biblically faithful Anglicans in North America—this is what we have hoped and prayed for since 2003.”
The Kigali gathering, representing over 70 percent of the Anglican Communion’s active membership, affirmed its commitment to the “abiding truth” of Scripture, to proclamation of the Gospel, and to the Anglican Communion as “part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.” In addition, the Primates pledged to celebrate and protect Anglican identity as well as support an Anglican Covenant.
Canon Anderson commended the Global South for these components of the communiqué: “The Primates are moving beyond temporary intervention to create long-term solutions such as a covenant and a new ecclesiastical structure, while consistently affirming the authority of Scripture and apostolic faith,” he said.www.americananglican.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ikLUK3MJIpG&b=675589&ct=2951325---------------------- From the Anglican Communion Network: Global South Confirms Support of North American Anglicans“We are deeply humbled by the care shown for us by our Fathers in God in the Global South,” said Bishop Robert Duncan, moderator of the Anglican Communion Network. “In many places they and the Anglicans they pastor face poverty, disease and persecution for their faith on a scale that goes far beyond anything that threatens us. In fact, just this week, Anglicans in Nigeria saw their cathedral in Dutse burned to the ground by rioting Muslims. Yet, in the midst of dealing with these massive issues, they continue to offer us their support and guidance. We can only be profoundly grateful,” he added. www.acn-us.org/archive/2006/09/global-south-primates-issue-statement.html--------------------- Anglican Network in Canada: Global Anglican Leaders Issue Grave Warning to Canadian Church “This comes as a dire warning for the Anglican Church of Canada,” says Anglican Network in Canada Executive Director, Cheryl Chang, “Global South leaders will be clearly defining for all what it means to be truly Anglican, and that requires a commitment to historic authentic Anglican teaching. If the Anglican Church of Canada chooses to follow the path of the U.S. Episcopal Church, they too will be deemed to be “walking apart” from the global Church and a new ecclesiastical structure will be required for Canada as well.” [Emphasis mine-angli_fan]www.anglicannetwork.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=45--------------------- Jonathan Petre of the Telegraph (UK) says: The good news is that the Global South primates held back from precipitate action.
There were fears that some of the more headstrong conservatives, including their maverick leader Archbishop Peter Akinola, the Primate of Nigeria, could have persuaded a number of them to break away then and there.
...The bad news for Dr Williams is that they have left him with few places to hide. The statement makes it absolutely clear that they will not brook anything they perceive as backsliding in a liberal direction. Their blunt challenge to the Presiding Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, will be particularly difficult for Dr Williams to handle.
Nevertheless, there may be room in their statement for a third way. Dr Williams would like to see a broader more centrist conservative block emerging in America, with whom he believes he could more easily do business than with the relatively small hardline group represented by the "network" bishops.blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/jonathanpetre/sept06/thirdway.htm--------------------- Meanwhile, Mark Harris of Preludium gives vent to: Some Unkind Thoughts on the Communiqué:Let us remember that the Primates Meeting is touted as one of the “instruments of communion.” It is called by the Archbishop of Canterbury and its members are the chief bishops of the Provinces of the Communion. If our Presiding Bishop is not recognized as Primate, this meeting is no “instrument of communion.” If a bishop from “those dioceses and congregations who are abiding by the teaching of the Communion” comes, it’s not a Primate’s Meeting. And, by the way, notice the singular “the teaching”? That’s Lambeth 1998, 1.10.
No one but the Archbishop of Canterbury can do something, and he has got to do it soon: He has to tell this crowd to step back. If not, the Primates Meeting will be a disaster, and not an instrument of communion, the Anglican Covenant development will be taken over by the Global South Steering Committee chaired by Archbishop Gomez and will not be a covenant but a directive, and the Anglican Consultative Council, swamped by double purple shirts, will not represent any of us.
I hope and trust the level of insult to the Episcopal Church, its leadership and people will be felt by the House of Bishops. If there is a broad middle group of those bishops, a fair number of whom voted for the new Presiding Bishop and all of whom are bound to uphold the Constitution and Canons of this church, they are being given their wake up call.anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-unkind-thoughts-on-communiqu-from.html-------------------- Fr. Jake has: Global South to the Communion: "We Rule!" And there it is, ladies and gentlemen; the dream launched 30 years ago by those who started getting nervous about all the riffraff coming in the door of the Church; a place they can call their own; an exclusive club where they can pretend "those people" don't exist.
God is shaking things up. No matter what storms we find ourselves in the midst, or how many pirates we discover swarming onto our decks, we must never let go of the fact that, whatever is happening, it's all glory. If we stay true to our convictions, if we never back away from proclaiming to a desperate world the radically inclusive love of God made known to us through Jesus Christ, all will be redeemed one day.
Let us keep in mind the words Paul wrote to the Church in Rome:
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord".frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com/2006/09/global-south-to-communion-we-rule.html-------------------- From The Episcopal Majority: For some time now, there had been the hope that the various actors within Anglicanism were in good faith looking for a solution to our present difficulties. The meeting in Kigali now obliterates any such hopes. The meeting finally reveals the determination and intransigence of a large group within the Church to mold the larger Communion in their image. It would seem now to matter little what the various intermediary efforts to adjudicate the differences within the Communion will conclude over the next few years. They have been pre-empted. The matter has been settled by the Rt. Reverend Peter Akinola and his colleagues from the Global South. They are establishing a new Anglicanism; others are now asked to sign on or no.episcopalmajority.blogspot.com/2006/09/kigali-communiqu-response-from.html
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Post by angli_fan on Sept 26, 2006 21:52:17 GMT -5
(from the Episcopal News Service) Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town has distanced himself from the communiqué issued last week after a meeting of 'Global South' Anglican leaders met in Kigali, Rwanda.
Although 20 Anglican Provinces were represented at the September 19-22 meeting, not all the attendees endorsed the resulting communiqué and Ndungane was unaware of its contents or planned dissemination, he said in a September 24 statement that clarified some details about the four-day meeting.
Ndungane was present at the Kigali meeting but was not consulted on the document, he explains, describing parts of it as "not consonant with the position of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa" whose bishops unanimously issued a strong call to work for unity within the Anglican Communion, in early September. In particular, Ndungane dissociates the Southern African Province -- one of 12 Anglican Provinces in Africa -- from proposals to develop alternative church structures in America, and to sideline Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who will become Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in November.www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78023_ENG_HTM.htm |
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Post by angli_fan on Sept 29, 2006 12:20:13 GMT -5
[from the Episcopal News Service] Another Anglican Primate from the Global South has raised concerns about the lack of adequate consultation regarding the contents of a communiqué issued after a group of Global South Anglican leaders met in Kigali, Rwanda, September 19-22.
Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town was the first to disavow the Kigali communiqué in a September 24 statement.
That was followed by a September 28 statement from the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP) which clarified that its Prime Bishop, the Most Rev. Ignacio C. Soliba, "did not attend the meeting and was not a signatory to the so-called Kigali Communiqué."
The communiqué was not signed, but was followed by a list of 20 "Provinces Represented," including Burundi, Central Africa, the Church of South India, Congo, Indian Ocean, Jerusalem and Middle East, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Rwanda, Southern Africa, South East Asia, Southern Cone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, West Africa, and the West Indies. Bangladesh and the Philippines were listed as "Not present but represented." There are 38 Provinces in the Anglican Communion.
It is unclear how many, or which, Primates actually endorsed the communiqué or saw it in its final form prior to publication on the Internet.www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78197_ENG_HTM.htm |
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