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...Hoekendijk, 48, exhorted his young listeners to disregard and rise above their confessional loyalties. "For God's sake, be impatient," he urged. "There will be no movement in the ecumenical move ment unless we are ready to step out of our traditions." Although the assembly's president, Anglican Canon Edward Patey, formally refused to sanction joint Communion, more than 1,000 young people commandeered the Reformed Church of Switzerland's St. Francois Cathedral and celebrated Communion together. Said one German student: "This is the most tremendous thing of the entire assembly. This is more important than words...
Burdens of History Sir: As a devout member of the Anglican Communion, I am profoundly shocked by the bias and misinformation in the June 6 article entitled "Two Miracles & 40 Saints." Granted that Roman Catholics were persecuted by members of my church in those days, this article seems to gloss over the fact that it was a terrible age when all religions persecuted all other religions e.g., Bloody Mary. FRANKLIN W. BARTLE Martinsville...
...small, barren island of Likoma in Africa's Lake Nyasa stands a great cathedral. Built by native Anglican converts a century ago, it was long the center of Anglican missionary work in Nyasaland and a showpiece of transplanted Christianity. Today, huge cracks threaten to bring down the remnants of its walls, and its stained-glass windows hang crazily from their worm-eaten wooden frames...
...Protestant missionaries have just about won back the 39,000 (out of 40,000) Kikuyu and Embu Christians who deserted the churches during the Mau-Mau uprising in 1952. Identification of mission Christianity with "imperialism" is the church's biggest problem; two years ago, nine parishes of the Anglican diocese seceded and have appointed their own bishop. Twelve splinter churches have been formed, including the African Israel Church (whose members wear turbans), the African Interior Church, the Church of Christ in East Africa, and the African Brotherhood Church...
Many feel that Christianity's greatest handicap in Africa is its record of tolerating segregation, notably in South Africa. Two such sworn enemies as South Africa's Premier Hendrik Verwoerd and Cape Town's Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank agree that a crisis is at hand for Christianity on the continent. Said Verwoerd last week: "We are faced today by threats to the future of civilization, to the contribution of the white man in South Africa . . . Christianity is threatened in Africa more than anywhere else." His prescription: continued segregation and repression...