Archbishop warns polygamists in Nigeria
THE ARCHBISHOP of Nigeria, the Most Revd Peter Akinola, has warned his country’s Christian polygamists to give up their extra wives. In a letter to his Church, he said that Christians could not disregard the Bible’s teaching on family life. “We cannot claim to be a Bible-believing Church and yet be selective in our obedience.” Many Islamic converts to Christianity in northern Nigeria are in polygamous relationships.
Plea for celibacy to be voluntary for RC priests
THE CAMPAIGNING Roman Catholic movement We Are Church has written to Pope Benedict XVI calling for voluntary celibacy to be re-introduced for priests. The group is concerned about the growing shortage of priests.
China told not to send Korean Christians back
NORTH KoreaN asylum-seekers fleeing to China should not be repatriated, for fear that they could be persecuted if they have converted to Christianity, the United States Commission of International Religious Freedom said in a report, Prison without Bars, last month.
www.uscirf.gov
Shortage of sanitary pads affects education
YOUNG girls in Kenya and Zimbabwe are being forced to miss school when they have their periods because of a shortage of sanitary pads and underwear. The charity Feed the Children estimates that girls miss one week out of four at school as a result of the lack of sanitary items. They are urging British women to donate sanitary pads to help the situation.
www.feedthechildren.org.uk
Visit ‘violates’ Windsor, says Dr Jefferts Schori
THE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, says that an unauthorised visit by the Archbishop of Uganda, the Most Revd Henry Orombi, to a congregation in Savannah, Georgia, violates the spirit of the Windsor report. Archbishop Orombi was scheduled to visit the congregation on Wednesday, but he has not received permission from the Bishop of Georgia, the Rt Revd Henry Louttit.
Billy Graham film in production
A FILM chronicling the life of the American evangelist Billy Graham is being made in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy: The early years, focuses on his youth in Charlotte, North Carolina. Armie Hammer is playing the title role.
Belief in aliens ‘does not contradict faith in God’
THE chief astronomer at the Vatican, the Revd José Gabriel Funes SJ, has said that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. Speaking to the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Fr Funes said that he could not rule out intelligent life beyond Earth, and that aliens would still be God’s creatures.
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