Anglican Church house turned into a brothel

Bulawayo 24 ^ | 26 Aug 2011 | Staff Reporter

[Cronos]

A house at the Anglican Church in Rugare is said to have been turned into a love nest. This comes amid speculation that the caretakers at the church site are offering lodging services to local prostitutes so that they can have 'quickies' in the Holy house.

Impeccable sources who stay near the church informed this paper that ladies of the night would use the church house as a love nest of having sexual contracts with their clients. "The house at Anglican Church is being used as a love nest and the caretakers (sic) are charging a fee for the service," said an H-Metro source.

"We are certain that this is happening because well known prostitutes in our area are coming to the church with different men from the bar and has been happening for some time now. Several prominent people are also coming with these prostitutes to the church house" said the sources.

[Ransomed]

I always hear their Anglican priests are generally more conservative than the priestess/druid kind of Anglicans. Isn’t Africa the place that is always against some of the wakadoo liberal stuff that comes out of parts of the Western Anglicans? At least that’s the impression I have from the articles posted on FR.

Freegards

[Cronos]

1. Christianity most definitely is NOT a Western religion -- there are Christian communities in Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, India, Mongolia that date back to Apostolic times.

2. Sue -- you specifically mean sub-saharan africa as
1. North Africa has always been linked to Europe for millenia.
2. Ethiopia too

3. Sub-Saharan africans "unable to function..." -- that is not correct for Kenyans and Tanzanians and to some extent Ugandans, but then these were exposed to Arab and Ethiopian civilizations for centuries

4. Specifically in West and Southern Africa your statement does seem true. There are some exceptions, but they are exceptions.

5. About Western Anglican priest's calling the shots -- that is not strictly correct, as Ransomed's post pointed out

6. Turkey is not part of Western civilisation, it is racially part of the West as it's peoples are predominantly aryanic -- descendents of Greeks, Lydians, Hittites, Armenians and other Anatolians along with Iranic peoples like Medes and Kurds and with some Turkic mixed in, but culturally they are not "western" (which is a wrong terminology in the way you are using it -- "western civilization" is primarily that of Western Europe which was characterised until 1500s by the Catholic Church -- however Greece, Russia, Bulgaria etc. are not "Western" -- even Catholic Poland is not very Western but rather on the cross-roads. You probably intend using the term "Christendom", which is more accurate)

[LadyDoc]

I repeat: You don’t know much about Africa. I was a missionary in Zimbabwe and another African country.

In Zimbabwe, the government is trying to destroy the Catholic and Anglican churches, because they run many schools and institutions and keep track of government atrocities against people, especially in the rural areas. So I repeat: Is this a sign of corruption due to government false clergy taking over, or is it a false accusation?

[sueuprising]

Anglican priests are not any more theologically conservative than their partners in heresy, the Anglican priestess. Thankfully, there is tHe American Anglican Council an orthodox splinter group from the Episcopal Church. They have fellowship and leadership with orthodox congregations in certain parts of Africa, as generally there are diocese in that country which refrain from ordaining homosexuals and inducting women into their ranks. The Episcopal or Anglican church mentioned in the article is not the orthodox one but the wider ANglican communion under the Archbishop of Canterbury. They embrace homosexuality and other sinful things but continue to operate as if they are a church. Although I am not very knowledgeable about Africa, as other more learned commentators have pointed out, I do know what I hear and read and it seems to me that many Africans act as if they are still tribal people despite the illusion otherwise.

[Ransomed]

“They embrace homosexuality and other sinful things but continue to operate as if they are a church.”

There are liberal African Anglican priests in Zimbabwe that embrace the homosexualist agenda? Because being a homosexualist in Zimbabwe is a little different than being gay in England. Everything I’ve ever heard about it says that the Anglicans in Africa are not homosexualized at all, in fact I got the impression of the opposite. I have heard that Anglicans in Africa actually have more success in some instances than Catholics because in some places they don’t trust non-married missionaries as they might be gay.

I could see priests/pastors of any group being against some of the brutal ways homosexualists and suspected homosexualists are treated in some cases.

Freegards

[sueuprising]

I was trying to convey that any Anglican diocese that is under the Archbishop of Canterbury has to accept the more liberal position. That being said, the conservative, orthodox ANglican communion in America has placed itself under the guidance of the African prelate because they are, as you say, more orthodox.