Archbishop Thabo Makgoba lit a candle and prayed for foreign nationals under attack in South Africa, at the beginning of a service in Turffontein, Johannesburg, on Saturday February 25.
Saturday 25 February 2017
Wednesday 22 February 2017
Scrap nuclear power, expand renewable energy sources, Church urges
Protesters outside court at a previous hearing (SAFCEI/GroundUp) |
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has appealed to the South African
government to scrap plans for developing nuclear energy and
instead to spend the money on education, training and other
development initiatives.
The
archbishop said in a statement issued from the church's Synod
of Bishops today:
“The
Synod of Bishops has revisited the resolution adopted by the
church's Provincial Synod last September, in which the church
expressed its opposition to the expansion of nuclear energy
and urged the government to pursue the path of renewable
energy initiatives.
Thursday 16 February 2017
To the Laos - To the People of God – Lent 2017
Dear
People of God
This
year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ordination of
women as priests in our Province. Bishop Margaret Vertue of False Bay
and the ACSA gender programme have been discussing the impact that
women's ordination has had on the church. While they have
acknowledged that there is much to celebrate—and I believe we have
been immensely enriched by their ordination—it is also clear that
the church still has many challenges to overcome when it evaluates
the leadership, empowerment, participation and inclusion of women,
both ordained and lay, in the church today.
Sunday 12 February 2017
Saturday 11 February 2017
Monday 6 February 2017
Water is Life, Sanitation is Dignity - JustWater 2017
Cathedrals and churches on four continents have come together to raise awareness and activism about water by launching the JustWater website. This website is part of a new project focussed on celebrating, protecting and ensuring equal access to the gift of water for all, with an international programme organised by St George's Cathedral (Cape Town); St Paul's Cathedral (London); St Paul's Cathedral (Melbourne); and Trinity Church Wall Street (New York). Archbishop Thabo spoke at the launch of the initiative in London.
Water is Life, Sanitation is Dignity
JustWater 2017
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
London, February 2017
Thank
you Dean David and your team for inviting me here to help launch this
initiative. Hillary and David are spoiling me at the deanery – thank you
for your generous hospitality. Barbara thanks for all the practical
arrangements.
As
I was preparing for this event, we learned in Cape Town that as a
result of diminished rainfall over the past year, the dams supplying
water for our metropolitan area are only 29 percent full, this at a time
when we cannot expect our winter rains to begin before May. While I
won't go here into the linkages between the El Niño phenomenon and
global warming, our water crisis had the effect of concentrating my mind
on how precious water is and on how devastating the effects of scarcity
can be.
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