Anglican Archbishop-Elect in Rwanda Vows to Fight Same Sex Marriage

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Archbishop elect, Onesphore Rwaje, who is set to succeed Anglican Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini in January, 2011, has vowed to follow in his predecessor's footsteps by taking a firm stand against homosexuality.

"Anything that is contrary to God's family set-up is not acceptable; there is nowhere in the Bible where same-sex marriage is encouraged. God created a man and woman to be the basis of a family," the Archbishop-elect told The New Times, a week after he was elected to succeed Kolini.

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Posted September 30, 2010 at 8:30 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. evan miller wrote:

I hope the new Archbishop follows the lead of ABP Orombi and divests himself of his US “networks,” directing them to integrate fully into ACNA as Anglican diocese.  Of course the Rwandan church would have to be willing to give up the considerable income their US churches provide…..

September 30, 12:26 pm | [comment link]
2. evan miller wrote:

Obviously, my comment above should have gone with the post about the new ABP of Rwanda.  Haven’t a clue how it ended up here.  Sorry.

September 30, 12:29 pm | [comment link]
3. evan miller wrote:

Well, I give up.

September 30, 2:43 pm | [comment link]
4. Sarah wrote:

RE: “Of course the Rwandan church would have to be willing to give up the considerable income their US churches provide…..”

Hi Evan, do you have any evidence of the above assertion about “considerable income”?

I’m not challenging, either way—just wondering.

September 30, 3:13 pm | [comment link]
5. evan miller wrote:

Sarah,

No, I have no evidence.  I am basing the assumption on the arrangement my parish had with the Ugandan church, to whom we tithed and contributed to in other ways.  In addition, our US ACNA diocese makes substantial contributions to the Ugandan church, and will continue to do so for a couple more years to ease the financial transition to no longer receiving funding from the US parishes.  Since AMIA is a Rwandan entity, written into the Rwandan church’s constitution, I would assume they provide at least as much financial support to Rwanda as we did/do to Uganda.  That said, I could be mistaken and if so, I apologize.

September 30, 3:24 pm | [comment link]
6. Barbara Gauthier wrote:

I believe the current Anglican Mission contribution to Rwanda is 10% of the AM’s annual budget, but I don’t know exactly what that figure would be.

September 30, 7:46 pm | [comment link]
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