wfn.org | ACNS3568 Thousands honour clerics who opposed Rhodesian regime

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ACNS 3568     |     ZIMBABWE	 |     8 SEPTEMBER 2003

Thousands honour clerics who opposed Rhodesian regime

[ACNS Source: ENI, Harare] Thousands of Christians from Zimbabwe's eastern
province of Manicaland thronged the Anglican Cathedral of St John the
Baptist in the city of Mutare to pay tribute to two former bishops - one
Roman Catholic, the other Anglican - who stood up against the racial
policies of Ian Smith's Rhodesian regime in the 1960s and 1970s. The joint
memorial service for Bishops Kenneth Skelton and Donal Lamont drew at least
3000 faithful, mainly from the Catholic and Anglican churches.

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