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(Telegraph) Archbishop of Canterbury to meet Mugabe amid Anglican rift
Dr Rowan Williams will become the first senior British dignitary to visit Mr Mugabe in Zimbabwe since Baroness Amos travelled to the country in 2001 to check on his pledge to halt violent land reforms.
Dr Williams is expected to urge the 87-year-old leader to rein in his renegade bishop Nolbert Kunonga, who split with the Anglican Province of Central Africa in 2008 over the ordination of homosexuals and has since, with the backing of Mr Mugabe’s security forces, seized 40 per cent of church property.
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