The LambethDaily ISSUE No.10 THURSDAY JULY 30 1998 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE 1998 LAMBETH CONFERENCE

TODAY’S KEY EVENTS Lambeth Daily to join Vigil African spouses tell 7.15am Eucharist More scenes Next issue set for Monday 9.30 - 11.00am Morning Prayer and Bible In solidarity with today’s all-Conference Vigil, 11.30 - 1.00pm Sections the Lambeth Daily will join the Conference of hope amid pain 3.30pm VIGIL led by Jean Vanier from London Day Communications Centre in suspending oper- Address on Holiness and Responses ations this afternoon.Therefore, there will be Page 4 Service of Light • Service of Reconciliation Page 4 no paper on Friday. Publication will resume Liturgy of Foot-washing • Night Watch with Monday’s edition.

Plenary focuses on Christian-Muslim relations Stories reveal Silence please interfaith tension and as Conference cooperation by E.T. Malone, Jr observes vigil he diversity of Christian-Muslim Trelations was emphasised by stories Lambeth goes with flow by David Skidmore These responses will be followed of tension and cooperation from Africa, by a mime performance by L’Arche Asia, Britain and the Middle East in he silence of an all-night vigil Community of Canterbury,and the Monday’s interfaith plenary. Twill descend on the Confer- Service of Light. Participants will Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali ence from 3.30pm today as bishops, then break for dinner at their (Rochester, England) opened the ple- spouses and staff take a recess from assigned dining halls.The meal will nary with news of the killing of three workshops, section meetings and be simple, in keeping with the vigil. Roman Catholic nuns in the Yemen, administrative tasks. The vigil will resume at 8.30pm reportedly by Islamic extremists.Later he Led by Jean Vanier, founder and with the Service of Reconciliation. reminded the Conference that the director of the L’Arche network of Mr Vanier will give the homily and Prophet himself “had very close relation- communities for people with join the chaplaincy team in the ships with Christians and Jews. Some learning and other disabilities, the foot-washing liturgy. were among his closest friends and col- Bishops, spouses and friends enjoy a bracing ride on the river, en route vigil will feature three meditations, All those participating in the leagues...What then has gone wrong?” to the Thames Barrier on Tuesday evening. a Service of Light, and a Service of Please see Vigil page 4 Bishop Tilewa Johnson (the Gam- Reconciliation which includes a bia) described his overwhelmingly liturgy of foot-washing. Muslim country-95 percent Muslim, the extended family there can be both part in religion classes and acquiring a The vigil will be held in the three percent Christian–as a country of religious communities,” he said. “All knowledge of the Bible and a deep main plenary halls, concluding with tolerance and openness, in sharp con- state functions are preceded with understanding of the Christian tradition.” the 7.15am Eucharist tomorrow. trast to the tales Bishop Josiah Idowu- prayers by leaders of both religious Christians may not have the same It begins with the Archbishop of Fearon (Kaduna, Nigeria) told 20 min- communities.” depth of understanding of Islam.Bishop Canterbury introducing Mr Vanier utes later. Christians and Muslims collaborate Johnson pointed out that “experience who will give a “holiness” reflection Bishop Johnson described his coun- on social concerns and in development has shown it is essential to have a and address.Three bishops will then try as a secular state “with freedom of work,he added.“A social priority of the knowledge of Islam in order to share respond: Bishop David Andres religion enshrined in the constitution,” Christian missions has been the estab- the Christian faith effectively with Alvarez-Velazquez (Puerto Rico, where “Christians and Muslims attend lishment of schools. Muslims.” US),Bishop Barnabas Dwijen Mon-

each other’s weddings and funerals.” “Therefore, many Muslims have He admitted that genuine conver- dal (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Bishop Photo: Anglican World Intermarriage occurs, and “within passed through Christian schools, taking Please see interfaith page 2 Thomas Shaw (Massachusetts, US). Jean Vanier Spouses seek cures Tomorrow: Euthanasia looms as critical for health crises plenary on Youth issue for Section One by Roland Ashby by Lisa Barrowclough wenty-eight thousand children rayer, praise, celebratory song by Margaret Rodgers sanctity of human life that is a gift euthanasia groups in a number of Tdie each day from largely pre- Pand champion cheerleaders from God, and the divinely man- states in Australia to achieve legisla- ventable diseases. Every minute of promise an energetic “Youth” ple- o you have the impression dated stewardship of the created tion. Only the Northern Territory every day eight babies die following nary tomorrow morning. Dthat Section One is talking order. It also emphasises the pastoral government successfully passed leg- pregnancy, and one woman dies The Ascension Eagles, a team of only about human sexuality and nature of the issue. islation to allow doctors to inter- from pregnancy-related complica- European champion cheerleaders international debt? They are just “Everyone wants a good death,” vene to end or to assist someone to tions. from inner-city London will start two of a wide range of justice and Archbishop Peter Hollingworth of end their life. This legislation, the Dr Yuji Kawaguchi, of the World their demonstration at 11:15 a.m. social issues the section participants Brisbane (Australia) says. “As the first of its kind in the world, was Health Organisation, related these precisely. are addressing. Euthanasia, a critical Lambeth Conference of Bishops, overturned by the Australian and other startling figures in a “The Connected Generation,” a issue for many parts of the Com- we must emphasise that God works national Parliament.” major presentation to the Spouses’ video about youth culture, and munion, is another important sub- redemptively through suffering. All dioceses of the Anglican Programme on July 22. “Speak Out,” a video on youth theme. Those who advocate euthanasia Church of Australia were active in Speaking on the theme “A ministries in challenging situations, The sub- show little awareness of the Christ- the Euthanasia No! Campaign. In Healthy World? Strategies for will set the scene for a series of dis- section bases ian experience that people may be the Northern Territory Bishop Hope,” Dr Kawaguchi and other cussions with youth workers. First, its theological- redeemed and transfigured through Richard Appleby played a leading experts addressed key health issues however, Dean Borgman, professor ethical reason- their suffering. part in the ecumenical and inter- facing the world. of youth ministries at an evangelical Photo: Anglican World/Lynn Ross ing on the “Euthanasia, understood as faith action against the law. In 1997, 5.8 million people were seminary in the United States and doctrine of the active medical intervention to end “We were united in our opposi- newly infected with HIV, and 2.3 consultant to Section Two, will sovereignty of a life, is still of urgent, critical con- tion,” Bishop Appleby said. “Apart million people died from AIDS, Dr share his vision of “incarnational, God, its under- cern for our nation,” he added. from our ethical and moral objec- Kawaguchi said. contextual youth ministry.” Peter Hollingworth standing of the “Attempts were made by pro- Please see Euthanasia page 4 Please see Spouses page 4 Please see Youth page 4 2 The LambethDaily THURSDAY JULY 30 1998 the middle part of the country...We’ve pageant.“We do not impose it.We share the Christian village of Shantinagar by a ernment targets a minority group and lost over 10,000 lives in the name of it in the spirit of truth and love, and we mob of 30,000 incensed over the vil- wishes to dissolve that group,” and the religion and more thousands have been do not compromise our conviction.” lage’s reported desecration of the concept of troubles and difficulties displaced...and millions of dollars of Bishop Alexander John Malik Qur’an. which “are started by blinkered individ- property lost.” (Lahore, Pakistan) pointed out that reli- “The most noticable expression of uals or fanatic Islamists with closed The 2,000-year presence of Arab gious pluralism is not a welcome con- Islam in the present-day world is the minds.” Photo: Anglican World/JRosenthal Christians in the Holy Land is “nothing cept in most Muslim circles in Pakistan. rejection of Western civilisation and The latter, said Bishop Malik,“I per- less than an awesome achievement,” While a Muslim man can marry a culture,”Bishop Malik said.This may be sonally do not call persecution.” He Bishop Riah Abu el-Assal (Jerusalem) Christian woman, the reverse is out of because the West is seen as too Christ- drew attention to events of the past few told the plenary. But after 150 years of the question for a Christian man and a ian and because of the overwhelming years when “churches were burnt living under “a superimposed Western Muslim woman. It is okay for a Christ- secular influence in most Western soci- down, Christians were killed, Christian veneer,”Arab Christians number barely ian to convert to Islam, but not for a eties. “On this, the educated Muslim is shops were raided and burgled,” when 1.5 percent of the population of Pales- Muslim to become a Christian.“Apos- really torn,”he said. claims of persecution were made. But tine and Israel, he noted. tasy in Islam is a grave sin and an apos- Bishop Malik cautioned against “this was not a direct attack against the “Our mere physical presence is at tate is liable to be killed,”Bishop Malik addressing Islam from a fixed or stereo- Christians for their own sake, but an stake,” he said, a situation that demands said. “There is no freedom of reli- typed posture. Our response as a Com- attempt by the terrorists to shake the the attention of the Anglican Commu- gion/conversion in Islam.” munion “has to be open, liberal and stability of the country, hoping thereby nion, “lest the Holy Land become a Under Islamic law in Pakistan, state flexible,”he stressed. to bring down the government and rule museum of holy stones.” and the Church are one and the same: However, “this openness and flexi- themselves.” During 1,300 years of “daily living “Islam is not only a religious faith, but a bility does not mean we should accept “I see a great need for Christian- St George’s school, Jerusalem dialogue” with Muslims, there have the ideology of Islam without its critical Muslim dialogue,”said Bishop Malik.“I been instances of discrimination and evaluation, or reject it without reason, recommend it and,indeed,it has already interfaith Continued from page 1 persecution,but despite these difficulties “Blasphemy law is like or compromise with it at the expense of been started.” He stressed the impor- sions “evaporate over time.” “we became accustomed to live with Christian principles.” tance of the work being done,including But, he said, the tradition of rural them, and they learned to appreciate a hanging sword for Tales of co-operation a 1995 visit to Egypt by the Archbishop Muslim children being sent to urban our presence among them.” the minorities.” Anglican leaders from Egypt and of Canterbury and a return visit the fol- Christian families for upbringing and Muslims in Palestine, he noted, his- England told how Christianity can co- lowing year of the Grand Sheikh to formal education can have “a gradual, torically were “more tolerant of reli- operate with Islam despite the best London. but profound effect . . . hearts can be gious pluralism than their European political ideology as well. In Islam, reli- efforts of extremists. The final speaker of the plenary was turned quietly but surely.” counterparts,” and enabled a more last- gion and politics are intertwined; they President Bishop Ghais Malik Bishop David Smith (Bradford, Eng- Opposite situation in Nigeria ing peace during their dominance of go hand in hand,”he said. (Egypt) told “how the Christian minor- land). He expressed his hope that the Today, said Bishop Idowu-Fearon, the Mediterranean basin than was the The pool of Muslims that believes ity live among the Muslim majority” in story his diocese would “encourage and 85 to 90 percent of the population in case under Christian or Jewish rule. Islam needs to be open to concepts of Egypt and the Middle East. He stressed offer opportunity for challenge to oth- the north of Nigeria is Muslim while For the 1,000 Anglican Palestinians, plurality and religious tolerance is that “through the centuries Christians ers.” Christians make up only three to five if not all 150,000 Arab Christians,“our increasingly under fire, he said. and Muslims have lived together,during Bishop Smith told how Muslims in percent. experience with Islam has been one of The split between modern Muslims times of joy and times of trouble.They Bradford “look to the bishop as a spiri- In the central region of the country mutual respect, and mutual trust,” he and those espousing an Islamic state run faced wars together, and so fought tual leader,since it is his responsibility to where he lives, Christians and Muslims said. strictly under the law of Sha’riah is together, died together, and survived ensure people’s rights.” This focus dwell in equal numbers, while in the For example, in Christ Church deepening, as illustrated in Algeria together.” comes out of the Muslims’ sense that south Christians outnumber Muslims School in Nazareth, 65 percent of the where the state is virtually under siege Christians and Muslims, said Bishop they are “in a strange land.” in about the same proportion as Mus- 600 students are Muslims. “All take by fundamentalists, and in his home Malik, “are part of the one body of Bishop Smith identified several poli- lims outnumber Christians in the Christian education courses and do country of Pakistan where enforcement Egypt.” cies established “to develop and foster north. better than our own in their exams,” of the blasphemy law has jailed or killed Bishop Malik went on to address the good relations.”These are “to encourage “Provision is not made for Christian noted Bishop Riah. There have been a number of Christians. issue of persecution and emphasised people to meet, to build up a sense of education in the state schools.The pub- few clashes over religious issues in the “Blasphemy law is like a hanging that “we have to differentiate between trust and respect for those who are dif- lic propagation of the gospel by the school’s 30-year history, he added. The sword for the minorities,”he said, citing ‘persecution’ and ‘difficulties and prob- ferent, and to fight against ‘Islamopho- media is prohibited. There is serious biggest concern has been arbitrating the case of a local counsellor who was lems.’” bia’ where Islam is misrepresented.” enmity or hatred...between Christians disputes among parents over which shot for defending a Christian graveyard He drew a distinction between the Lisa Barrowclough, Nan Cobbey and and Muslims in Nigeria, especially in children get to star in the Christmas against desecration, and the burning of word persecution “used when the gov- David Skidmore contributed to this report. The Lambeth Conference 1998 Daily Voices Meeting in residence at The University of Kent, Canterbury, England pride! that Bishop Arthur Malcolm’s team PRESIDENT Letters For the record The Most Revd and Rt Hon George Carey On Tuesday I was given the opportuni- scored 133 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. Archbishop of Canterbury On the London Day ty of speaking to the Queen at Buckingham In reply, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali’s EPISCOPAL COORDINATOR OF Palace. For many years my diocese will hear team could only manage 121 runs from COMMUNICATION First, overheard among spouses at The Most Revd Robin Eames Lambeth lunch: the words “So you see the man who spoke its 25 overs.The result: a win for Bishop Archbishop of Armagh “There are so many men in purple. I to the Queen.” Malcolm. We regret the error… apolo- and Primate of All Ireland Tuesday is memorable for many things. gies all around to Bishop Malcolm and DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS can’t find my husband.” Canon James Rosenthal “How about a lucky dip?” (Known to We were able to touch and feel the West- his team! Anglican Communion Office some as the pick from a “grab bag.”) minster Bridge from which my favourite • DIRECTOR OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS “Nah, he won’t be any better.” poet, William Wordsworth, composed his The Revd Kris Lee, New York famous poem “London Bridge is falling The name of Bishop Martin B. DIRECTOR OF NEWS TEAM Second, the Queen is ever so gracious down.”The nursery rhyme which my dear Nyaboho was misspelled in Tuesday’s James Thrall, North Carolina and warm. She actually accommodated Lambeth Daily. We regret the error. DIRECTOR OF SECTION COMMUNICATORS nearly everyone at the party with a quip mother taught me when I was an infant Margaret Rodgers, Sydney or a concern. May God bless her reign. came to my mind when we were cruising • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY under the London Bridge. Lynn Ross, Quebec (The Rt Rev) M E Ponniah Walsingham: It’s Anglican! West Malaysia We were given four hours to see the Indeed there is a Roman Catholic splendour of Lambeth Palace—the core of The LambethDaily • Shrine in this glorious Norfolk village, English culture and civilization.The speech but the principal shrine of Mary is Tel 82 8091 Fax 82 8092 London Day’s marvels of the young Prime Minister in this Palace Anglican. More than 100 bishops plus EDITOR When I was a student in a high school Robert Williams, Los Angeles was no doubt a treat. spouses will be the guests of the Shrine in Sri Lanka (a former British Colony) my ASSOCIATE EDITOR So many marvellous things within a day! Farnarkling touch-down in the Administrator on Saturday. More are Brian Thomas English teacher managed to make a trip to I thank God for Archbishop George Christchurch, New Zealand third chukka ... welcome. Further information may be London.After that for many years in public Carey. It always happens when one sends a obtained by phoning 01328 820266. CREATIVE DIRECTOR gatherings he ended his speech with the Marla Murphy, Los Angeles (The Rt Rev Dr) baseball reporter to cover the bishops’ Walsingham has an international prayer memorable words: “So you see the man ART DIRECTOR Subramaniam Jebanesan cricket match… fellowship through the Anglican Com- Andy Day, Canterbury who saw the king.” It was his pleasure and Jaffna, Sri Lanka The real result in Saturday’s game was munion. SENIOR CORRESPONDENTS Carol Barnwell,Texas • Jane Gitau,Kenya STAFF WRITERS Daily Question Daily Quote David Duprey • Bob Libby CONFERENCE NEWS TEAM “What impressions do you take with you from the London Day?” Lisa Barrowclough • Nan Cobbey • E.T. Malone, Jr “What is damaging to the Jan Nunley • Allan Reeder • Katie Sherrod Todd and Patsy Bishop Sunil Cak Barbara Gulick environment is treating the David Skidmore McGregor (Jabalpur, N India) (Kentucky, USA) SECTION COMMUNICATORS universe as a credit card with Nicola Currie • Randall Lee (Missionaries to “It was a marvellous “It was a lot of fun Sarah Moore • Doug Tindal Madagascar) thing that the Queen being in places where no spending limit.” STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS “Our anniversary was was close to the I didn’t think I’d ever William Killough • Harriet Long Bishop Peter Selby, Worcester (England) Jeff Sells • Anne Wetzel Monday, so I flew to people, not reserving be. I enjoyed Tony CIRCULATION London to surprise Todd, herself. The Prime Blair’s speech. It was The paper for Seminarians in residence then we were honoured Minister’s speech was good to hear that PRINTED BY to be introduced to the Queen by the Archbishop of good. There was depth to his governments and churches can have The LambethDaily Castle Printers London Limited (0171) 436 3383 Canterbury!” message.” common goals.” is kindly donated by Visit the conference on line at www.lambethconference.org Interviews by David Duprey, Photos by Lynn Ross Robert Horne Paper Company Ltd The LambethDaily THURSDAY JULY 30 1998 3 Daily Lives Daily Events Weekend ‘Jesus na me padee (Jesus is my friend),’ they sing bravely Friday July 31 7.15 am Eucharist (Province:The Church of Ceylon) followed by Bible Study video with Serigo Carranza-Gomez, Spouses contend with Bishop of Mexico 2 Cor 8 8.15 - 9.15 am Breakfast 9.30 - 11.00 am Morning Prayer and Bible Studies 11.00 - 11.15 am Coffee strife and heartbreak 11.30 - 1.00 pm Plenary Presentation: ‘Youth’ - A steel band will set the scene for presentations which include a video,‘The Connected Generation,’ by Carol Barnwell town, was indeed safe although the and conversation with Lindsay Urwin, Bishop of Horsham (England), Pete Ward, youth advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and others. atan falls down, Jesus stands Cathedral was bombed and rebels 1.00 pm Spouses: Gentle Keep Fit Exercises to Music “S up,” sang the group of eight planted an anti-aircraft gun in the 1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch/Free Time spouses from the Province of West bishop’s compound. 2.00 pm Spouses: Excursions Africa, bending low or reaching high Things are relatively quiet in Sier- 3.00 - 3.15 pm Tea in physical response to the words. ra Leone these days. The legitimate 3.00 - 4.00 pm Spouses:Workshops -Spirituality The impromptu prayer and praise government has been restored while -Creative Workshops filled the foyer of Rutherford College families are left to mourn their dead 3.30 - 5.30 pm Sections with lively melody following dinner and heal their wounded. Mrs Lynch 5.45 pm Evening Prayer (Group:Youth Presentation Team) last week. returned home several months later followed by Bible Study video with Michael Nuttal, Even though the Conference pro- and has done much for the children Bishop of Natal 2 Cor 9: 6-8 6.30 - 8.00 pm Dinner/Free Evening vides a respite, the women, who have left in the wake of this adult conflict. 8.30 pm Market Place Events: 37 children between them, say they A video she brought to Lambeth Henry Cooper Memorial Lecture: Bishop Rowan Williams pray constantly for family and friends shows hospital wards lined with old Eleanor Gbonda, of Monmouth “On Being a Human Body.” at home in their troubled part of the hospital beds, fitted with mismatched wife of the Bishop of Bo (Sierra Leone) Colt No1 (Cornwallis Lecture Theatre) world. sheets. Mosquito netting hangs limply Photo: Carol Barnwell Our Lady of Walsingham Shrine: Informal reception. Pilgrimage to the historic shrine the following morning. In May last year Eleanor Gbonda from the ceiling over each. A small head.“There were bombs.We hid in Rutherford Junior Common Room woke at 2am when 20 armed soldiers child sleeps on the tiled floor,unaware the bushes for three days. I just can’t Christian Aid Workshop: Interactive workshop on world stormed her home in search of her of the visiting group of Cathedral speak of it anymore.” debt. Eliot Junior Common Room (‘Possums’) husband. “There was a coup and the women who have come to hand out Churchwomen’s groups feed and Woomb: Programme of birth control and family planning, rebels knew the Church would never toiletries and small gifts. house children left on the streets as a particularly in developing countries. Darwin Lecture Theatre support them so they came looking “Papa God, please watch over result of the years of conflict in West for us,” says Mrs Gbonda, wife of the these children,”the women pray,“our Africa. Others like Dorcas, a women’s Saturday August 1 7.15 am Eucharist (Province de L’Eglise Episcopal au Rwanda) Bishop of Bo, Sierra Leone. leaders for the future who suffer so group in Liberia, assist the handi- 8.15 - 9.15 am Breakfast/Free Time “They took three vicars away that much today.” The children become capped and disabled. 1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch/Free Time night,” she says, believing that only animated when the women engage The bishops’ wives are amazingly 6.30 - 8.00 pm Dinner prayer saved her family. “They went them in song but mostly their eyes are resilient. Conflict comes and goes— without killing us,”she says as she lays blank.They look sad and tired.They and hopefully stays away. They are Sunday August 2 her hands softly in her lap, resigned to have seen too much. grounded “In our part of the world 8.15 - 9.15 am Breakfast memories that will never leave her. In one bed a mother and her the congregation (mistakenly) thinks Your invitation to visit Canterbury Churches today “When I heard about the coup I daughter lie with bandaged stumps you have everything” and that you As this is the free weekend of Lambeth ‘98, bishops and spouses in Canterbury on Sun- was visiting my daughter in the Unit- where their left hands used to be. can help in any situation. day are encouraged to visit one of the many Anglican Churches, listed left, in this historic city. There will not be a Eucharist on campus today. ed States,”Alberta Lynch, wife of the They accept a bar of soap quietly as a Marie Yeboah, wife of the Bishop 1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch/Free Time Bishop of Freetown, says. “I called nurse in a starched uniform checks of Kumasi, recalls a mother who 6.30 - 8.00 pm Dinner/Free Evening home but got no answer. When I bandages on the teenager next to showed up at the bishop’s home with finally reached my sister I could hear them. her feverish three-year-old. In place Monday August 3 heavy blasting from the guns.” Louise Neufville, wife of the Bish- of the absent bishop, Mrs Yeboah 7.15 am Eucharist (Province: La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico) No one knew the whereabouts of op of Liberia, does not want to talk prayed over some tap-water and gave followed by Bible Study video with Michael Nuttal, her husband and everyone was afraid about the war in her country. “I can’t the child a blessing, to the great relief Bishop of Natal 2 Cor 9: 6-8 to talk on the phone. Several weeks think about it,” she says as she turns of its mother. “If the bishop is not 8.25 - 9.15 am Breakfast passed before she learned her hus- her back on the group of women. there and someone comes for help, 9.30 - 11.00 am Morning Prayer and Bible Studies 11.00 - 11.15 am Coffee band, Bishop Julius Lynch of Free- Tears well in her eyes as she shakes her you must act!” 11.30 - 12.30 pm Spouses: Regional Meetings 11.30 - 1.00 pm Section Preparation Time: Period for reading section Briefly material (Reports & Statements) and Resolutions Group photos available in the Annex Gift Shop (Regional and Sectional) Mail Call: Conference organ- Bishops of the Church in Bishops - £14.00, Spouses - £14.00 1.00 pm Spouses: Gentle Keep Fit Exercises to Music 1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch/Free Time isers ask all participants to Nigeria invite all Conference Staff - £12.00 There is a small extra charge if credit card purchase. 3.00 - 3.15 pm Tea remember to check regularly participants to a presentation 3.00 - 5.00 pm Spouses: Presentation 4: ‘Go into all the World’, Mission for messages and to pick up on evangelism in its congrega- Supplies limited and Evangelism Today and Tomorrow daily post placed in the stu- tions and dioceses.The gath- 3.30 - 5.30 pm Sections dent boxes at the entrance of ering is set for 8pm tomorrow 5.45 pm Evening Prayer (Province:The Church of Ireland) Sunday Services in Canterbury followed by Bible Study video with Penelope Jamieson, each college. Participants are in the Franciscan Study Cen- Canterbury Cathedral Bishop of Dunedin 2 Cor 10 also asked to note the tre in Giles Lane. 8.00 am Holy Communion 6.30 - 8.00 pm Dinner/Free Evening 11.00 am Sung Eucharist announcements carried regu- 3.15 pm Evensong 8.30 pm Market Place Events: larly on the video monitors Washington DC Bishops 6.30 pm Compline Millennium Advisory Group: The official planning agency for the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury will around the campus. Ronald Haines and Jane St Mildred,s, Church Lane, off Stour Street present a programme on its work. The Revd Stephen Lynas will Holmes Dixon invite Confer- (01227 462395) 11.00 am Said Eucharist make the presentation. Darwin Lecture Theatre Church Times reminder: ence participants to a presen- Christian Aid Reception: The international relief, peace and St Mary Bredin, Nunnery Fields Friday is publication day for tation titled “Lesbian and Gay (01227 453777) justice charity will hold an informal reception. the Church times whose Anglican Experience.” Mem- 8.00 am Holy Communion Eliot Junior Common Room (‘Possums’) team of reporters is covering bers of the organisations 11.00 am Morning Worship Beginning tonight and continuing through August 6 the Conference. Early copies Changing Attitudes (UK) and 6.30 pm Evening Worship The Old Stagers will be presenting Three One act plays by St Peter’s Church, High Street Noel Coward. Gulbenkian Theatre will be available for sale from Integrity (US) will offer the (01227 462395) mid-day today from the Uni- presentation today, 1.30- 9.30 am Sung Eucharist versity shops at Park Wood 2.45pm, in Colt Lecture The- St Paul’s, Church Street Court and in Darwin, Eliot atre 1. (01227 462686) 10.30 am Parish Eucharist Weekend in East London and Rutherford colleges. St Martin’s, North Holmes Road The ACC’s former chair- Up to 40 bishops and their spouses will be spent with leaders of local (01227 462686) will spend the coming weekend faith communities, including Hindu, Ceridwyn Coles (Diocese man, the Rev Canon Dr 9.00 am Holy Communion exploring the cultural and religious Jewish, Muslim and Sikh as well as of Christchurch, New Colin Craston, will sign St Cosmo’s and St Damian,Tyler Hill Road Zealand) invites feminists and copies of his new book, Debtor (01227 763373) life of East London. Christian. 10.00 am Family Service other friends to offer theo- to Grace, from 2.30 to 3pm on On Saturday, August 1, the group Hillary Armstrong, a member of St Dunstan’s, St Dunstan’s Street logical reflections on Lam- Tuesday,August 4, at the Angli- will visit four of the area’s boroughs Tony Blair’s government and who (close to campus) and the Canary Wharf urban redevel- chairs the Inner Cities Religious beth during an informal can World stand in the Market 10.00 am Sung Eucharist opment project, and then share an Council, will take part in the dialogue. gathering today, 11.30am- Place. The book traces Cras- St Michael and All Angels, Harbledown 12.30pm, in Tent 1 of the ton’s journey of faith and his (01227 464117) evening meal with Christians minis- For more information, contact 10.30 Sung Eucharist Spouses’Village.All interested reflections on 25 years of tering in the area. Bishop Roger Sainsbury (Chelmsford, You will receive a warm welcome at these churches. On Sunday morning they will England) or call Chris Beales on 0181 Conference members are work in international church Call the number listed for more details or make welcome. life. enquiries at the information centre. attend local churches. The afternoon 519 2524. 4 The LambethDaily THURSDAY JULY 30 1998 More scenes from London Day Photos: Long,World/Harriet Anglican William Killough

Spouses Continued from page 1 Province, women can only be heard not use a condom.” Youth Continued from page 1 the Dunblane tragedy that took and not seen, except behind the high Bishop Geralyn Wolf (Rhode the lives of so many of Scotland’s He warned that if the world’s walls of their dwellings. Island, US) strongly criticised the Opportunities will be offered schoolchildren. mean temperature increases by only “Their lives become so domesti- American health-care system. “I twice during the plenary to listen The session will conclude with one or two degrees centigrade, as cated and mechanised they are pri- stand here...as a citizen of the most in on conversations. First, Lindsay a celebratory song, which all will recent scientific studies suggest, mos- marily perceived as child-producing technically advanced country in the Urwin, Bishop of Horsham (Eng- be invited to sing, and a challenge quitoes may extend their range to machines.As for sexually related dis- world with regard to health care (and land), will chat with Pete Ward, from Bishops Urwin and David new geographical areas, leading to ease among women, we dare not yet) if you’re unemployed or in part- youth advisor to the Archbishop of Moxon (Waikato, New Zealand). more cases of malaria and other even guess the true reality.” time work in America, health care is Canterbury,and two youth workers “Our message to the bishops,” infectious diseases. Mrs Ramalshah said the “whole difficult to attain.” about “an incarnational theology of says Bishop Urwin, “is that they He also expressed concern about issue of HIV positive and AIDS is Captain Ian Campbell, Interna- youth ministry and praxis.”Later in themselves should go out and talk the susceptibility of infants and chil- still a taboo subject in our society.We tional Health Programme Consul- the session, five bishops will reflect to the young people in their dio- dren to the increased use of chemi- are quite convinced there must be a tant for the Salvation Army,advocat- on good experiences of youth min- ceses!” cals worldwide. lot of cases of this nature in our dio- ed a more integrated community istry in their own dioceses. Tomorrow’s evening service at Sheila Ramalshah, wife of the cese, especially as homosexuality is development approach to the care of A multicultural and ecumenical 5:45 p.m., part of the day’s focus Bishop of Pakistan, described Pak- rampant there. But there is neither those suffering with AIDS, in which group of young “Bible dancers” on youth, will be led by young istan’s allocation of only two percent public awareness nor any public hospitals, clinics and churches offer will portray the story of the feed- people from the Diocese of of its income to health care as debate on these issues.” community counselling, education ing of the 5,000 from John’s Chichester (England). A youth “abysmal.” She added that she and her hus- and support in partnership with peo- Gospel. They will also remember band will lead the service of praise. She said: “It seems the powers- band often feel “frustrated in sharing ple in the home, neighbourhood and that-be have decided that it is more these needs with the western local community. and the desire for humility, he says. Vigil Continued from page 1 important to spend about 70 percent churches, who often react to them as Archbishop David Gitari, of A noted French Roman Catholic of the nation’s income on militarism if the Church is wasting its resources Kenya, said most illness in his diocese vigil are encouraged to join in the lecturer and retreat leader, Mr Vanier and the related repayment of inter- by seemingly duplicating societal was preventable.“Many people catch foot-washing.A prayer watch will be founded the first L’Arche communi- national debt. Such a situation means programmes.” She challenged the water-borne diseases such as typhoid, maintained throughout the night in ty in Trosly-Breuil, France, in 1964. we are woefully ill-equipped...to Church “to be true and obedient to dysentery and cholera. They need St Augustine’s Hall. Today, L’Arche network has more serve our community through health its call to servanthood by meeting only to be told to boil water,even the “The vigil is essentially a celebra- than 100 communities in 29 coun- care.” the needs of suffering people.” tap-water, before they drink it.” tion-of reconciliation and of humil- tries. Diseases related to women are Protecting women from AIDS Simple education programmes ity and of love,and the love of Jesus,” In addition to serving the physical being especially aggravated by Pak- Mrs Juliana Okine, wife of the have been most effective in tackling Mr Vanier says.“What we are going and psychological needs of its clients, istan’s social structure.“In my area of Bishop of Ghana, attributed Ghana’s these problems, Archbishop Gitari to suggest is that if bishops and their L’Arche also sees to their spiritual the North Western Frontier growing AIDS problem to “the said. spouses would wish they can wash development, a characteristic that unlimited matrimonial powers that The final speaker, Mr Hugh Bai- each other’s feet.” sets it apart from most institutions for husbands generally wield over their ley, MP for York and Parliamentary The reason, he says, is to under- the mentally handicapped. wives...when it comes to contracep- Private Secretary to the British Sec- score the nature of discipleship. As Mr Vanier is also founder of the tion and AIDS protection. retary of State for Health, said the followers of Jesus, Christians are Faith and Light community move- “The fact that only the male con- government believed the answer to being called forth “to love and to ment, which brings together the dom is widely available in itself gives social and health problems lay in serve each other.” In washing one mentally handicapped and their par- a promiscuous man power to sen- people deciding to take responsibil- another’s feet, they are learning ents and friends for mutual celebra- tence a woman to death if he will ity at every level. about forgiveness, reconciliation, tion and support.

Euthanasia Continued from page 1 of the Lambeth euthanasia sub-sec- manent vegetative state,”Archbish- development of palliative-care tion, steered a debate that resulted op Hollingworth said. “It means facilities. tions to the legislation we knew we in a resolution passed unanimously active intervention by a medical “This was a strong emphasis in had to work for the indigenous by the Australian General Synod in team.” our General Synod motion,” the Aboriginal people. 1995. The sub-section includes people Archbishop said.“We bishops must “They were strongly opposed The Lambeth sub-section is with a professional background in also include this stress in our Con- for cultural reasons. But many of working to prepare a strong state- the area, including Bishop Chilton ference report.” the tribal people also were refusing ment for the Conference, and has Knudsen (Maine) who has exten- Bishop Appleby said: “One rea- to consult doctors or attend clinics reached consensus on the definition sive palliative-care experience. son why the Northern Territory

Photo: Wetzel Anglican World/Anne because they were fearful of the of the term. Archbishop Hollingworth said government passed their euthana- Servant Ministry: In her role as effects of injections. This lack of “Euthanasia does not mean ter- that Australian Anglicans, while sia law was the lack of palliative- ordained Deacon, Marcia Stackhouse (Colorado, understanding was because of inad- mination of treatment by medicos, actively opposed to euthanasia, care specialists and facilities in US) joins US Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold equate consultation with the or a patient’s decision not to seek called urgently for all State gov- Darwin and the rest of the Territo- in yesterday’s Conference Eucharist offered by indigenous communities.” further treatment, or the ending of ernments to provide sufficent ry.There was only a handful of pal- the Episcopal Church in the United States. Archbishop Hollingworth, chair life support for a patient in a per- financial resources for the further liative-care beds available.”