September 30, 2005

CANADA – Bishop Mvume Dandala, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), has urged Canadians to join African churches in condemning the role of developed nations in perpetuating corruption in Africa and the rest of the developing world.

"The matter of corruption is a matter that requires all churches to act together because there are two aspects of corruption," Dandala, who visited Toronto in September, said in an interview with the Anglican Journal. "First, it is challenging our own people to actually confront this problem head on. There's another problem and that is the fact that even the international world has developed values of wanting to deal corruptly when it cuts deals with people from the developing world."

Dandala argued that others besides African churches need to speak out because "we're not just speaking to the African people. It becomes the worldwide community that needs to speak to all the structures that deal with the people of the developing world, holding them responsible for their actions."

Full story: http://anglicanjournal.com/extra/news.html?newsItem=2005-09-29_a.news.

Episcopal News Service
Source: Anglican Journal