A Land of Contrasts : Compass Rose Society visits the Diocese of the Highveld, South Africa
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article29682
- Author
- Grimes, Daphne (Daphne Buchanan), 1929-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2002 Christmas
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2002 Christmas
- Issue
- 108
- Page
- 16-18
- Notes
- In October 2002 nine members of the Compass Rose Society, led by Canon John Peterson, visited the Diocese of the Highveld in South Africa at the invitation of Bishop David Beetge. "Our primary purpose for visiting the area was to understand better the scourge of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and to experience how the Diocese of the Highveld is dealing with the problem. In the townships and shanties, some 38 to 50 percent of the population are HIV positive. A similar number are unemployed". Among the ministries the group visited was the clown ministry at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, begun by a Swiss man, Andre Poulie. The Compass Rose group included Canadian Canon Philip Poole from Trinity Church, Aurora.
- Subjects
- Compass Rose Society
- Church of the Province of Southern Africa. Diocese of the Highveld
- AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Church of the Province of Southern Africa
- AIDS (Disease) - South Africa
- Beetge, David (David Albert), 1948-2008
- South Africa
- Clowning - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Poole, Philip (Maurice Philip), 1951-
- Location
- General Synod Archives