{"id":21041,"date":"2014-02-27T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T22:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2014-03-10T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T20:25:49","slug":"anglican-church-of-canadas-africa-relations-co-ordinator-claims-gafcon-is-engaged-in-a-campaign-of-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canadas-africa-relations-co-ordinator-claims-gafcon-is-engaged-in-a-campaign-of-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada&#8217;s Africa relations co-ordinator claims GAFCON is engaged in a campaign of misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21042\" alt=\"IsaacMukasa\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IsaacMukasa.jpg\" width=\"163\" height=\"185\" \/>Rev. Canon Kawuki Mukasa is the ACoC\u2019s new \u201cAfrica relations co-ordinator\u201d and he is about to perform a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/shared-ministry-to-africa-announced\" target=\"_blank\">similar function for TEC<\/a>. It would appear that he has been given the rather ambitious task of rebuilding the reputation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Africa. The diminishing of the ACoC\u2019s standing in Africa has, according to Mukasa, nothing at all to do with the blessing of same sex marriages, the ordination of openly active homosexual clergy, the numerous lawsuits launched to acquire buildings that others paid for or the diminishing of the centrality of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>No! It is all GAFCON\u2019s fault for launching a \u201ccampaign of misinformation\u201d. Mukasa isn\u2019t entirely clear what the heinous calumnies GAFCON has ingeniously concocted are that could possibly appear worse than the things the ACoC has actually done.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montreal.anglican.ca\/adm\/media\/assets\/PDFs\/Newspaper\/2014\/MTL_ANG_March_2014_web.pdf?ext=.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <i>(page 4, my emphasis)<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter read out by Bishop Barry Clarke at the January meeting of the Montreal Diocesan Council, Rev. Canon Kawuki Mukasa, global relations o\ufb03cer for Africa, says the Anglican Church of Canada would like to build on the good will that Montreal has helped to sustain in relations with Africa. He invites the diocese to work collaboratively with other Canadian dioceses that have companion links with African dioceses <strong>\u201cto explore ways of reclaiming the reputation that Canada used to enjoy in African Provinces\u201d before a \u201ccampaign of misinformation\u201d by an international group called the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Canon Kawuki Mukasa is the ACoC\u2019s new \u201cAfrica relations co-ordinator\u201d and he is about to perform a similar function for TEC. It would appear that he has been given the rather ambitious task of rebuilding the reputation of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canadas-africa-relations-co-ordinator-claims-gafcon-is-engaged-in-a-campaign-of-misinformation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,2149,1764],"class_list":["post-21041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-gafcon","tag-rev-canon-kawuki-mukasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}