UGANDA: 400 Anglican Bishops Get Set to Address Pressing Issues for African Continent
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By David W Virtue, Virtueonline
Gospel and Social Justice will combine to bring needed change to the area
Some 400 African Anglican bishops including a small group of Western Anglican bishops and leaders of social service agencies, who together represent more than 80 percent of the shared faith of the Anglican Communion, are gathering here to confront Africa's pressing spiritual and social problems.
The weeklong conference will focus on issues of conflict, poverty, corruption and disease on the continent in the context of the gospel of redemption and change.
"It is a misreading of the conference agenda to suggest that we are all about social change without the gospel being at the heart of it," a Nigerian bishop told VOL. Changing peoples' outward circumstances while not addressing peoples' need for inner transformation by Christ is to misread the agenda here, a Ugandan bishop told VOL.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is here and will be the guest preacher at the opening Eucharist on Aug. 24.
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