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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-26-08 08:36 AM
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Land Dispute Enters Holy Ground As Sacked Bishop Seizes Cathedral
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Land Dispute Enters Holy Ground As Sacked Bishop Seizes Cathedral
Anglican split deepens after Mugabe's security forces back renegade clergyman

The Rev Christopher Tapera laid his altar on a wooden table outside the granite walls of Harare's Anglican cathedral and told the assembled worshipers that if they wanted to find the devil they only needed to look toward the locked and barred church.

"The bishop is the devil in disguise. He has been sent by the devil to destroy the church. The devil is living in the cathedral," said the priest.

The worshipers locked out of the cathedral for Sunday's service generally agreed that it was Satan's work. But the devil many had in mind was Robert Mugabe, as a politically driven battle for control of Zimbabwe's Anglican church mirrors the country's history with its own unilateral declaration of independence, land grabs and a stolen election.

The Anglican church, the second largest denomination in Zimbabwe, has split after the bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, declared an independent diocese, ostensibly in a stand against the tolerance of homosexuality by Anglicans in Britain and the US.

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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-26-08 09:16 AM
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1. The Churches were one of the few groups with the power to stand up to Mugabe.
They have been dealt with, through arranged schism and highly suspect photos of 'infidelity'.
What's the inflation rate now? 28,000%?

Fuck Mugabe.
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