Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Runcie sympathized with those who felt "moral scandal" over the exclusion of women. He admired those of the 619 current female priests he had met in the Anglican branches that have ordained them. (The U.S. has 474; Canada, 97; New Zealand, 40; Hong Kong, 4; Uganda, 3; and Kenya, 1.) But, Runcie continued, Scripture and church tradition are "highly dis couraging to the idea." Saying that he has "consistently driven down the middle of the road," he soothingly advocated "gradualism," with more experience of women as ordained deacons or lay ministers before any change is made...
...black shantytown near Johannesburg, South Africa, Primary Schoolteacher Desmond Mpilo Tutu saw a white man respectfully tip his hat to a black woman. Tutu had never seen a white make such a gesture. The woman was Tutu's mother; the white was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, now an Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into the clergy, rising rapidly in the Anglican Church in southern Africa and becoming Bishop of Lesotho...
...T.S.P.M. was revived by 1980 under the leadership of Nanjing's Bishop Ding Guangxun, 68, a former Anglican. His T.S.P.M. has had an uphill struggle in seeking to regain control of Chinese Protestantism, a battle complicated by a woefully small number of church buildings to accommodate worshipers. The T.S.P.M. estimates there are 3 million Protestants in the country, about the same number as the official count of Catholics. But the respected Chinese Church Research Center in Hong Kong claims that house-church members swell the Protestant total to 30 million or more. Privately, some Chinese officials say the figure...
...convoy of Ugandan soldiers moved into Namu-gongo, the village was known primarily for its shrine commemorating the martyrdom of 45 Christians who were burned alive in 1885. But in a modern-day massacre, by the time the troops left last May they had ransacked the town, executed an Anglican priest and tortured and killed as many as 100 villagers. When army units swept north through the Karamoja region, there were reports of more atrocities. After driving more than 20,000 farmers and cattle breeders from their homes, the soldiers obliterated villages, killed livestock and destroyed fields so that nothing...
...next Prime Minister, announced an economic package that includes a 20% currency devaluation. Lange also proposed a removal of interest-rate controls, a three-month curb on prices and professional fees, and a review of export incentives. The Reserve Bank, breaking with precedent, hailed the plan; even the Anglican Archbishop of New Zealand, the Most Rev. Paul Reeves, abandoned his ecclesiastical silence and called on the country to support those working for a "way out of economic difficulties." Lange, 41, replaces the National Party's Sir Robert Muldoon, 62, who has been Prime Minister for nine years...