September 1, 1999 'Yoke of international debt' holding back Africa

The voices were urgent and angry, calling for the forgiveness of international debts owed by African nations to give them a "fresh start," and also for a new economic order based on mutuality rather than exploitation. An...

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September 1, 1999 Kenyan synod introduces new rules for cheaper funerals

Nairobi An Anglican Church initiative is likely to revolutionize funerals across Kenya, a country in which elaborate and expensive customs are traditionally linked to burials. Last month the synod of the Anglican Church...

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September 1, 1999 Churches warn Nigeria to stamp out corruption or face consequences

Abuja, Nigeria Nigeria's church leaders, concerned over the alarming levels of corruption in their country, have called on the nation's new civilian government to take drastic steps to clean up the country. The churches...

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September 1, 1999 Missionary doctor, priest murdered

East London, South Africa One of the first women to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Church in South Africa, Scottish-born Elizabeth Bride Dickson, aged 78, was found murdered this June in her secluded home in the picturesque...

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April 1, 1999 'Stop the killing in Sudan'

Ottawa A coalition of five Canadian churches including the Anglican Church of Canada has called on the federal government to help stop what they are calling genocide in Sudan. Since the civil war started in 1983, 1.9...

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April 1, 1999 Sudanese lawyer raises human rights concerns

(ENS)-The message Abel Alier brought to his audiences during a nine-day visit to churches and human rights advocates in the United States was a grim one as tensions mount between the Islamic government based in Khartoum and the...

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April 1, 1999 Carey calls for action

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Basil Hume added their voice to the call by Sudanese bishops recently to Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to intervene in the civil war in Sudan. In a joint letter to Mr. Cook they...

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April 1, 1999 Canadians provide health care to refugees

An ecumenical consortium of churches in Canada and the Sudan have joined forces to provide health care to people displaced by internal civil strife and famine in Sudan. Inter-Church Action, a coalition of Canadian...

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April 1, 1999 Banks owe South Africa, says Jubilee 2000

(ENI)-Churches and other organisations have called on Swiss, German, British and American banks who gave "odious" loans to the apartheid regime to pay compensation to post-apartheid South Africa. The call was made as...

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April 1, 1999 Welsh girl's story inspires Africans

(ENI)-The Bible Society of South Africa is planning to mobilise more than half a million people nationwide to undertake walks in the year 2000 to celebrate what it has declared to be the Year of the Bible. "This exciting...

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