Anglican prelate plans visit to Zimbabwe

Canterbury, England, August 30 (ENInews)--Rowan Williams, the Archbishop
of Canterbury, is planning to visit Zimbabwe in October as part of a wider
trip to Africa and hopes to meet with President Robert Mugabe to discuss a
brutal dispute over church properties. 

Williams will be visiting Zimbabwe as well as Malawi and Zambia as part of
"a pastoral visit to show support for the Anglican church there," said
Marie Papworth, media director at Lambeth Palace in London, the Archbishop of
Canterbury's residence and office. 

Williams has requested a meeting with Mugabe, but the Zimbabwean leader's
office has not responded to date, Papworth told ENInews.