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[Audrey Whitefield <a.whitefield@quest.org.uk>]

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Feb. 7, 1997
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE
Canon Jim Rosenthal, Director of Communications
Anglican Communion Office 
London, England

[97.2.1.2]

ENGLAND: GOVERNMENT COMMISSION TURNS DOWN GARDEN OF EDEN

(Cedric Pulford ENI) The rolling English countryside around the small
Midlands town of Market Harborough is known as a rural paradise. Now
Christians are planning to add the finishing touch with a "re-creation"
of
the Garden of Eden.

The garden, which should be open to the public in the year 2001, will
have
many kinds of fruit trees, including apple trees. Religious communities
in
the Holy Land will be asked to contribute plants to the garden.

The garden is part of an ambitious project for a Christian conference
and
ministry centre planned for the new millennium. However, the project
received a setback on 4th February with the news that its application
for
funding from the British Government's Millennium Commission for funding
had
been rejected.

The centre was seeking 28 million pounds sterling, about half the
overall
cost of the project, and, according to the Church Times in London, had
the
support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr George Carey,
for
its funding application. Despite the setback the project will go ahead.

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