Former Anglicans who subsequently entered the Roman Catholic Church before Pope Benedict XVI may join the Anglican Ordinariate, a Catholic bishop has confirmed. However, concerns that roadblocks are being thrown up by the Catholic hierarchy may dampe…
Author Archive
Manchester vicar jailed for immigration fraud
A Manchester vicar has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for immigration fraud. On 26 January 2012 the Bolton Crown Court sentenced the Rev Canon Patrick Magumba following a guilty plea entered last December on one count of conspiracy…
Immigration fraud trial begins for Chelmsford curate
The trial of a Diocese of Chelmsford clergyman and his accomplice on charges of immigration fraud began last week at the Inner London Crown Court. The Rev. Elwon John and Amdudalat Ladipo, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, are accused of having conduc…
Council of Europe assemby calls for ban on euthansia
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called for its member states to ban euthanasia. On 25 January 2012 the Strasbourg-based assembly adopted resolution 1859/2012 entitled “Protecting human rights and dignity by taking into …
Congo not backing the AMiA
Claims the Anglican Mission in America has been given a home in the Anglican Church of the Congo are false, the Primate of the Congolese church, Archbishop Henri Isingoma of Kinshasa tells The Church of England Newspaper. The Anglican Church of the Con…
Episcopal Church in sharp decline
A statistical analysis presented to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church on 27 January 2012 reports the American church has experience a traumatic decline in all quantifiable areas of church life over the past decade. In their 42-page PowerPoi…
Indian diocese loses court bid to keep church properties
By George Conger In a ruling handed down last week the Karnataka High Court held that the transfer of properties — including 50 church buildings — in 1972 from a property trust created by the United Basel Mission Church in India (UBM…
Meet murder with love, archbishop tells Nigeria
The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh has urged Nigerian Christians not to seek vengeance for the wave of anti-Christian and ethnic violence sweeping across Northern Nigeria. The archbishop’s peace plea follows a series of …
Church Commissioners pledge support for embattled African Christians
The Second Church Estates Commissioner has pledged the support of the Church of England in aid to Africa’s embattled Christians. On 20 January 2012 — the same day as 200 Nigerians were killed in terror blasts by al-Qaeda linked terrorists ̵…
Chinese Christian dissident freed from prison
A Chinese Christian leader sentenced to two years of “reeducation through labour” has been released early from detention, the China Aid Association (CAA) reports. The jailing of Pastor Shi Enhao, deputy leader of the Chinese House Church Alliance (…
