Word: anglicans
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Although the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church has shown increasing signs of opposition to the government, it was the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches in South Africa that took the lead in fighting apartheid. But last week a major segment of the Dutch Reformed Church expressed aloud its discontent with South Africa's increasingly harsh racial policies...
...procession of churchmen wound slowly through Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the elderly, bespectacled Anglican prelate stopped before the Roman Catholic altar, knelt and murmured a brief prayer. He also knelt before the two other altars in the three-sect church: the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox. Flashbulbs popped and newsmen recorded the fact, for the prelate was none other than the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Church of England. Dr. Fisher was in the Holy Land on the first leg of a twelve-day Middle Eastern pilgrimage that will...
...whirlwind, two-day tour of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Dr. Fisher was honored by Armenian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox patriarchs, Coptic and Maronite prelates. Anglican bishops, a Lutheran provost, an Ethiopian abbot, Franciscan monks, a Moslem sheik. But even the tensions of Israeli-Arab politics could not disturb the Primate. Before a crowd of 1,000 people, Bethlehem's Mayor Ayoub Musallam called on the archbishop to look carefully at the "plight and situation of the Arab refugees, our brethren who are still living in tents, huts and caves." Expertly sidestepping Ayoub's entreaty, Dr. Fisher answered: "What...
...Armenian, and Roman Catholic priests fought for his attention. "It is very hard to compress eternity into only a few moments," said the archbishop, as the organ began pealing God Save the Queen. (The organist was a Belgian Catholic who had no idea what else was appropriate for an Anglican churchman...
Declared the Anglican Primate of Australia, Sydney's Archbishop Hugh Gough, at Bishop Ambo's consecration: "This is a great moment in the missionary history of the church...