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Chairman's Letter June 2020 29th June 2020 Archbishop Foley Beach Cliquez ici pour lire la Lettre en Français Para ler a carta em Português, clique aqui Para leer la carta en Español, haga clic aquí Beloved in Christ Jesus: Greetings in the name of our Risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Our world continues to be rocked by crises. Hard on the heels of the Covid -19 pandemic, which continues to cause massive disruption to social and economic life, the appalling death of George Floyd has sent shock waves around the world. Despite the disorder it has triggered, his murder has rightly led to deep heart searching and a new awareness amongst Christians of the evil of racism in denying a person’s fundamental identity as made in the image of God. I have recently addressed this with the our ACNA Provincial Council ,  and I urge the whole Gafcon movement to take this to heart, especially the call to reach out with the love and mercy of Jesus Christ to minoritie...

A family of four is shot and injured by armed assailants as they pray in their home. Medical staff save the life of a six-month old baby who was shot in the head during an attack which claimed 17 lives, including that of the baby's mother. A three-year-old dies 24 hours after suffering machete blows to the head sustained in an attack in which nine people died and seven remain missing. The scale and severity of the violent atrocities which take place on a near daily basis in central Nigeria is utterly heart-breaking. It is difficult to find words to describe these appalling acts, but one thing is clear: it is time to end the silence on the persecution of Christians in the region. For over a decade, central Nigeria has been plagued by violence perpetrated by an armed group comprising men of Fulani ethnicity, which was first observed in Plateau state in March 2010, and has been increasingly exponentially since 2015. The militia is believed to have been responsible for more deat...