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by 23 April 2021
The Archbishop of Cape Town writes:
BISHOP Ellinah Ntfombi Wamukoya, the first woman Anglican bishop in Africa, died on 19 January, aged 69, after being admitted to hospital and receiving oxygen therapy for Covid-19.
After a career as a civil servant, she was ordained priest in 2005 after a long involvement with the diocese of Swaziland, in the Southern African nation now called eSwatini (formerly Swaziland). She served as an Anglican chaplain to the University of eSwatini and was elected bishop in 2012.
Before her ordination, she had been the Town Clerk of Manzini, eSwatini’s commercial hub, having earlier served as the City Planner. She held a Master’s degree in town and regional planning.
The 2021 Lambeth Awards
Dave Bagley MBE – The Langton Award for Community Service. For outstanding Christian social care, serving over 22,000 of the most vulnerable people in Bolton.
Kerry Beaumont – The Thomas Cranmer Award for Worship. For outstanding service to music and worship at the cathedrals of St Davids, Ripon and Coventry, with particular reference at Coventry to outreach, recruitment and nurture of boy and girl choristers to create a cathedral choir with diversity at its heart.
Isaac Borquaye, more commonly known as Guvna B – The Alphege Award for Evangelism and witness. For being an outstanding, faithful and vibrant witness to Jesus Christ using his gifts and the medium of recording, performance and video to proclaim the good news.
An aircraft carrying South Africa s first COVID-19 vaccine doses arrives at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg Feb. 1, 2021. (CNS photo/Elmond Jiyane, GCIS handout via Reuters)
On January 4th, Bishop Moses Hamungole of the Catholic Diocese of Monze in Zambia announced via a Facebook post that he had tested positive for COVID-19 at the Monze mission hospital in his diocese. He added that he had since been transferred to the Levy Mwanawasa hospital in the capital, Lusaka. He sought to reassure everyone:
I am well taken care of here and the is no reason to worry about. I’m calm and confident to pull through this Covid19 attack. I wish to thank you for your prayers. At the same time, I want you to take Covid19 pandemic real and to urge you to follow all health regulations. Let us remain United in prayer!
Church leaders in Brazil call for help as new strain spreads
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Two women receive Covid 19 vaccination in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, on Monday
Two women receive Covid 19 vaccination in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, on Monday
CHURCH leaders in Brazil have called for urgent support for hospitals as a new strain of the coronavirus spreads rapidly. The country now has the second highest number of Covid-19 deaths after the United States: more than 210,000.
Sister Irene, from the Brazilian organisation REPAM, who works alongside communities throughout the Brazilian Amazon, said: “The situation is dramatic. Many people are dying outside the largest public hospital of Manaus [the capital city of the state of Amazonas] while waiting. The same is happening inside the hospital, due to lack of staff, oxygen, and ICU beds.”