NIFCON : Inter Faith Concerns Around the Anglican Communion : Together ... in suffering
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article32412
- Author
- Mitchell, Susanne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2005 Eastertide
- Author
- Mitchell, Susanne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2005 Eastertide
- Issue
- 117
- Page
- 38
- Notes
- The author, NIFCON's Administrator, writes about the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004 and the world's response to the disaster. "The Rt. Rev. Duleep de Chickera, [Anglican] Bishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in expressing extreme gratitude for the immediate and continuing support noted that `Much of this has been offered ecumenically and through interfaith collaboration'. Acts of remembrance and prayer for the survivors have also been held around the communion on an inter faith basis." "To quote Bishop Duleep again, `Agnostic space for integrity of space will be repeatedly required in this process. Easy, traditional God talk demands restraint for God to be really heard'. Even material aid can cause problems. Part of the motivation behind the PGI [Communion of Churches in Indonesia] organised aid in Indonesia was to counteract the political repercussions of misplaced offers of aid from overseas Christian groups, who for example wanted to adopt Muslim orphans and raise them as Christians. Good relationships between faith groups painstakingly built over the years are threatened by aggressive methods of evangelism that are insensitive to the cultural and religious sensibilities of the people".
- Subjects
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Tsunamis - Sri Lanka, 2004
- Interfaith dialogue - Asia
- Disasters - Religious aspects
- Disaster relief - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Disaster relief - Religious aspects - Church of Ceylon
- de Chickera, Duleep (Duleep Kamil), 1948-
- Right-wing Christianity
- Location
- General Synod Archives