International Anglican Family Network: Urban Families
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- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2007 [December]
- Issue
- 127
- [128]
- Page
- [29-34]-[40], [1-12]
- Notes
- Issue of IAFN Newsletter included as part of the Anglican World for December 2007. "The future of cities depends on the future of young people. In particular, it depends on what policy makers can do to equip young people to break the cycle of poverty. This in turn depends on involving young people in the decisions that affect them. Over half the global population now live in towns and cities. Cities with over 10 million people are becoming commonplace. Elsewhere smaller settlements are exploding with rural migrants". "In many countries, the majority of children will live in urban slums. Increasingly the urban dream is vanishing. The possibility of moving beyond one's parents' poverty disappears". "Families are faced with many pressures and dilemmas -- which children to educate, which to send to live and work with relatives, decisions often made on the basis of gender". "In the midst of our cities are stories of hope, of risks taken in faith. When we work with families, children and young people we work with the cities of the future, with them we often glimpse a different city -- one of possibility, of energy and safe spaces. We need to make those visions central to our presence and witness in the cities of the 21st century". After a series of stories about particular initiatives in different countries, the section ends with a prayer that begins: "O God, give us vision for our cities, that they may be cities of justice, cities of prosperity and cities of peace, in which vice and poverty cease to fester, children play in the streets in safety and the elderly walk without fear". IAFN Newsletter divided into sections: Editorial / Andrew Davey -- Kenya: Kibera Slum, Nairobi / Colin Smith -- Zambia: Chawama Compound, Lusaka / Emmanuel Chikoya -- Rwanda: Kigali City / Josephine Rwaje -- Brazil: Salvador / Stephen Taylor and Bruno Almeida -- Belize City / Cecile Reyes -- India: Delhi / Monodeep Daniel -- Japan: Nagoya (The fourth largest city in Japan) / Kei Ikezumi and Claire Gelder -- Australia: City of Newcastle / Fergus King -- Italy: City of Rome / Michael L. Vono -- Scotland: Hamilton (a large town near Glasgow) / Ian Barcroft -- England: City of Newcastle upon Tyne / Peter Robinson and John Sadler -- Children in Urban Situations / Kathryn Copsey.
- Subjects
- International Anglican Family Network (IAFN)
- Cities and towns - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Family - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Children - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Slums - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Slums - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Kenya
- Slums - Kenya
- Poor children
- Church work with poor children - Anglican Communion
- Church work with poor children - Anglican Church of Kenya
- St. Jerome Anglican Church, Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Family - Zambia
- Poor children - Zambia
- Church work with poor children - Church of the Province of Central Africa
- Housing - Rwanda
- Children - Rwanda
- Family - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church of Rwanda
- Episcopal Church of Rwanda. Diocese of Kigali
- Family - Brazil
- Family - Religious aspects - Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil
- Church work with the poor - Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil
- Family - Belize
- Single-parent family - Belize
- Church in the Province of the West Indies. Diocese of Belize
- Street children - India
- Church work with poor children - Church of North India
- Children of migrant laborers - Japan
- Children - Religious aspects - Holy Catholic Church in Japan (Nippon Sei Ko Kai)
- Nagoya Youth Centre (Nagoya, Japan)
- Holy Catholic Church in Japan (Nippon Sei Ko Kai). Diocese of Chubu
- Family - Australia
- Family - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Australia
- Australian aborigines
- Anglican Church of Australia. Diocese of Newcastle
- Episcopal Church. Convocation of American Churches in Europe
- Urban mission - Episcopal Church
- Church work with refugees - Episcopal Church
- Joel Nafuma Refugee Centre (Rome, Italy)
- Children - Great Britain
- Children - Religious aspects - Scottish Episcopal Church
- St. Mary's Anglican Church (Hamilton, Great Britain)
- Family - Religious aspects - Church of England
- St. Martin's Centre (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.)
- Location
- General Synod Archives