World briefs: April

Will US bishops withdraw?

US bishops meeting at Navasota, Texas, released a statement on March 21 saying they could not meet demands set by the Primates to protect evangelical and orthodox churches. Earlier, Dr Katherine Grieb from Virginia Theological Seminary advised the bishops to ‘fast’ from full participation in the Anglican Communion for five years, suggesting the proposed global Anglican covenant is only ‘a short-term solution’.

Aid groups slam Mugabe

British aid agencies hit out at a clampdown by Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF party on Zimbabwean church groups doing human rights work. Recently, eight church leaders were arrested and the office of a church-based human rights organisation in Harare was closed.

Eritrean Christian prisoner dies

An Eritrean Christian died “due to physical torture and persistent pneumonia” in prison in February, four and a half years after the regime jailed him for worshipping in a banned Protestant church. This is the third known killing of a Christian for his faith in Eritrea since October last year. 

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