Let me firstly extend a personal welcome to Singapore and I trust that our hospitality teams have been taking good care of you. I was privileged to have been at the last 2 encounters – that may or may not be a good thing. Continuity can be very helpful but I realise that staying too long results in excess baggage. If you travel as...
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Introduction This paper aims to discuss economic empowerment for the Church, and suggest some methods we need to employ in order to empower the Church economically. Further, discussion will focus on capacity building and net working in order to sustain the economic development in the Church of the Global South. As far as the...
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The Anglican Relief and Development Fund Canada (ARDFC) is now fully operational and, with the granting of charitable status by Revenue Canada, is able to receive donations and issue receipts for income tax purposes. Full information is available on the website: www.ardfc.ca. ARDFC works in close partnership with the...
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Vienna, Virginia — Five Talents is now working in the small Central African country of Burundi, in partnership with the Mothers' Union UK and Mothers' Union Burundi. And, within three years, 10,000 people will be beneficiaries of this project! Since 2000, the Mothers' Union Literacy and Development...
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September 2007 1. As representatives of Global South Provinces of the Anglican Communion we gathered at the New Coco Beach Hotel in Accra, Ghana, between 19th and 22nd September 2007. We were called together by the Global South Steering Committee and its chairman, the Most Rev’d Peter J. Akinola, to continue the work of the Economic...
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Ethical Economic and Financial Covenant As Covenant people, we recognize that we are bound together as members of Christ’s body and are called to live, serve, and minister according to Scriptural and ethical principles. To that end, Provincial Economic Advisors of Provinces of the Global South offer this Covenant of ethical...
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GLOBAL SOUTH PRIMATES MEETING: 19-22 SEPTEMBER 2006, KIGALI, RWANDA Global South Economic Empowerment Track Summary Statement Greetings to all our brothers and sisters in Christ in the Provinces of the Global South. The Global South represents areas of diverse economic environments, some in daily desperate need and some in abundance...
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Introduction From the Third Communiqué (October 2005) 38. A dimension of responsible stewardship and accountability is the clear call to be financially self-sustaining. We commend the new initiative for financial self-sufficiency and development being studied by the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA). This is not only...
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22. April 2010
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