eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 26 November 2002

Zimbabwe government gives church farms a reprieve

Harare (ENI). The Zimbabwean government has announced, in an apparent change of heart, that it will spare church farms that had been listed for compulsory acquisition under its controversial land reform programme launched two years ago. A government minister told church leaders that the church properties had been listed by mistake, said the Rev. Trevor Manhanga, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe. [290 words, ENI-02-0428]

German bishops suggest Protestants form global alliance

Bielefeld, Germany (ENI). Two leading German Protestant bishops have proposed the creation of a global alliance which they believe would strengthen the voice of world-wide Protestantism. Bishop Margot Kaessmann from Hanover and Bishop Wolfgang Huber from Berlin made the call at a meeting of the synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany earlier this month. [484 words, ENI-02-0429]

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