{"id":36690,"date":"2013-01-10T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cfrs_africa_in_transition_anglicans_in_zimbabwe_regain_cathedral_and_other_\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:15:15","slug":"cfrs_africa_in_transition_anglicans_in_zimbabwe_regain_cathedral_and_other_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36690","title":{"rendered":"(CFR&#39;s Africa in Transition) Anglicans in Zimbabwe Regain Cathedral and Other Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years, Robert Mugabe\u2019s government has, in effect, persecuted the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe.  As I blogged previously in 2011, the ex-bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, a long-time Mugabe supporter, sought to take his diocese out of the Anglican Communion, ostensibly because of Anglican Communion support for gay rights.  The church thereupon deposed him and chose a new bishop, Chad Gandiya. But, Mugabe continued to support Kunonga and a pro-Mugabe judge gave him \u201ccustody\u201d\u009d of church property pending a high court ruling. Kunonga also ended up with a confiscated, previously white-owned, farm. Pro-government goons over the past five years have, in effect, overseen the transfer of the cathedral in Harare, Anglican schools, orphanages, and parish churches to Kunonga and his supporters. The archbishop of Canterbury protested directly to Mugabe last year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfr.org\/campbell\/2013\/01\/09\/anglicans-in-zimbabwe-regain-cathedral-and-other-properties\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years, Robert Mugabe\u2019s government has, in effect, persecuted the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe. As I blogged previously in 2011, the ex-bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, a long-time Mugabe supporter, sought to take his diocese out of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36690\">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":[36,39,40,50,202,144,114,151,526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36690","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=36690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}