Anglican churches should set aside their internal divisions and be sensitive to the needs and struggles of people in societies worldwide, an international body representing various provinces of the Anglican Communion has urged.
The call was made by delegates to the triennial meeting of the Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN), which met March 14 to 20 in Geneva. The APJN also urged member provinces of the Communion to “incorporate issues of justice into missional work and into theological education at every level.”
A network of the Communion, the APJN is the vehicle by which Anglicans around the world collectively advocate for global peace and justice issues. Now in its 25th year, the APJN is composed of representatives from about 24 active provinces of the Communion.
Not a word about the violence against Christians in Nigeria.
#1 Yeah, I guess it doesn’t count when oppressed Muslims massacre oppressive exclusive faith-bigoted Christians. (/sarcasm)
If God were to mete out unmerciful justice on us all, none could stand on our own. Jesus was unbelievably restrained when John asked Him, “Lord, shall we call down fire from heaven on the sinners?” If Jesus had not come to pay the price demanded by perfect justice, He could rightfully have answered, “OK, it’s been nice knowing you, John.”, whereupon John and all humanity would have been burned to a crisp. We should work for all to know the One who paid the price for us all. Our fight for justice (and we should defend the weak, the powerless, the innocent in human terms) should not be as those who are just, but as those who are justified by grace and mercy bought with the shed blood of Jesus.
Apparently the Anglican Communion is a faith-based humanitarian group:
“The examination of the role that the UN, the World Council of Churches, the Anglican Communion and other faith-based and humanitarian groups play in advocating for human rights was also very informative, said Canon Maybee.”
Canon Maybee.
What an apt name for a representative of a communion whose Western branch, including its founding nation, has so many clergy who find it so difficult to articulate and confess the Gospel and the one Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
The APJN has of late occasionally resembled little more than a den of Israel-haters and anti-semites. It is OK to discount the group’s further utterances.
http://www.anglicanjournal.com/100/article/acc-tones-down-resolution-on-middle-east-conflict/?cHash=dccf983b80
Anglican Peace and Justice Network? Aren’t they the same as the “Episcopal Peace and Justice Network?” I’ll take a pass on them.