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Middle East Archbishop Sounds Negative Note on GAFCON. Akinola Replies The President Bishop of the Middle East the Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Anis has written to the Primate of Nigeria Archbishop Peter Akinola asking him to reconsider the "timing and venue" of the announced GAFCON meeting of orthodox Anglicans in the Holy Land in June 2008 just a month before the Lambeth Conference meets in Canterbury. In correspondence obtained by VOL, Archbishop Mouneer wrote saying he wanted to share his thoughts on the proposed GAFCON meeting. "It will be a great joy for the Liberals if the conservatives boycott the...

The Resurrection of Christ frees us from hatred Today as we remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I would like to meditate on the words of Apostle Paul to the church in Rome; ‘For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his’ Romans 6:5 These words are very difficult to understand. How can we unite with Christ in a death like his and how we can we unite with Him in his resurrection? We learn from the history of ancient Egypt that when a...