{"id":27698,"date":"2011-08-07T23:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T23:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_america_dons_the_victims_mantle_in_church_wars\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T23:28:55","slug":"cen_america_dons_the_victims_mantle_in_church_wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27698","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) America tries to Don the victim\u2019s mantle in church wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The murders, beatings and state-sanctioned violence suffered by Anglicans in Harare under the Mugabe regime are akin to the discomforts faced by Episcopalians loyal to the national Church who reside in dioceses that have departed for the Anglican Church in North America.<\/p>\n<p>This summary of the situation in Harare from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori came in an August 2 report released by the Episcopal News Service (ENS) summarizing her trip to Central Africa.  Her remarks are similar to claims made at the Jamaica meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in 2009.  However, in Kingston delegates from the Global South rejected the Presiding Bishop\u2019s attempt to cloak the Episcopal Church with the victim\u2019s mantle, arguing in the United States it was the Episcopal Church who was the aggressor in its legal battles&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoconger.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/05\/america-dons-the-victim%E2%80%99s-mantle-in-church-wars-the-church-of-england-newspaper-aug-5-2011\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murders, beatings and state-sanctioned violence suffered by Anglicans in Harare under the Mugabe regime are akin to the discomforts faced by Episcopalians loyal to the national Church who reside in dioceses that have departed for the Anglican Church in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27698\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,63,66,114,373,376,647,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-presiding-bishop","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}