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Dying to oppose Robinson
Advocate, The, July 19, 2005
In the United States, when a church refuses donations from a source it doesn't agree with, its members simply get by with less. In Africa they get sick and die.
Opposed to the consecration of V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, many Anglican bishops in Africa are refusing life-supporting donations from the American church. Benjamin Nzimbi of Kenya said he is willing "to do without the money" to remind the Episcopal Church of its mission "to preach the Great Commission," according to a June 8 report from Lambeth Palace, the headquarters of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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But his and other bishops' refusal of millions of dollars in American donations is taking its toll in human lives. According to a report from AllAfrica Global Media, Bill Atwood of the Ekklesia Society, an international Anglican network, recently toured several African nations where churches are struggling to feed their members while dealing with the ravages of AIDS. "I met with some archbishops [in May], and they were saying how painful it was, with people starving to death, to make these choices," he said.
By some estimates 70% of all funding for Anglican churches in Africa was coming from the Episcopal Church.
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