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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@mail.epicom.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

February 22, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Read

South Africa's Archbishop Ndungane sets four-city U.S. visit

[ENS] The Diocese of Atlanta, on behalf of Episcopalians for Global
Reconciliation (EGR) will welcome Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of
Cape
Town, South Africa, to St. Luke's Episcopal Church in downtown Atlanta
on
Friday, March 4, at 7 pm.

EGR is an emerging network of lay and ordained economists, business
people,
students, social organizers, theologians, attorneys, labor activists,
and
advocates committed to carrying out the following eight United Nations
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce human suffering across the
globe by the year 2015:

1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
2) Achieve universal primary education;
3) Promote gender equality and empower women;
4) Reduce child mortality;
5) Improve maternal health;
6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases;
7) Ensure environmental stability; and
8) Develop a global partnership for development.

Ndungane, Primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa
(CPSA,)
is a respected public speaker on international social justice issues. In
October 2004, he helped launch the American chapter of the Micah
Challenge,
a global campaign to mobilize Christians in 100 countries in support of
the
MDGs.

His topic for the evening will be "A Reason for Hope: How one person,
one
family, one community can help change the world."  After Atlanta,
Ndungane
will visit St. Louis, Missouri, Birmingham, Alabama and Washington, D.C.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to purchase Ndungane's book, "A
World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa," with proceeds supporting
MDG-related efforts.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact
the
Rev. Canon Debbie Shew at 404-601-5320 or dshew@episcopalatlanta.org.

Note: The following titles are available from the Episcopal
Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY  10017; 800-334-7626 or
212-716-6118
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org

To Read: A WORLD WITH A HUMAN FACE: A Voice from Africa by Njongonkulu
Ndungane (London, England: SPCK Publishing, 2004; $19.00)

Apartheid has ended but the work of building a just society for all in
South
Africa has only just begun. The fall of apartheid was one of the most
exciting events in recent history. The struggle against instutionalized
injustice allowed heroes to come to the fore and brought great hope for
the
future. Njongonkulu Ndungane shared in that fight for freedom. Here, he
talks of his youth under apartheid and of his imprisonment on Robben
Island,
where he was made to build the prison that would later house Nelson
Mandela.

During his captivity, he came to realize that apartheid's end would not
bring about a perfect society and that a new South Africa would need
heroes
of a different kind - those willing to challenge poverty. 'A World with
a
Human Face' is a call to South Africans and the international community
to
work together to overcome social injustice, adverse economic forces and
the
weight of history to build a just society fit for all.

Njongonkulu Ndungane is Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa.

To Read: CHRISTIANITY, POVERTY AND WEALTH: The findings of 'Project 21'
by
Michael Taylor (Geneva, Switzerland: WCC Publications, 2003; 98 pages;
$16.00)

The study nicknamed 'Project 21' set out to clarify polices for the
future.
It asked questions about the nature and causes of poverty and wealth,
their
relation to the work and teachings of the churches, and what responses
the
churches should now be making.

Poor and rich communities, government officials, academics,
non-governmental
organizations, church leaders and the private sector in over 24
countries
were involved. The findings, drawn together in this book, deliberately
avoid
the usual statistics and try to allow the voices of these people,
especially
poorer people, to come through.

Michael Taylor is director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue and
professor of Social Theology at the University of Birmingham. He was
formerly Director of Christian Aid in the UK.

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