Williams confronts Mugabe with dossier of abuses
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has asked Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to intervene to stop attacks on Anglicans by allies of an excommunicated bishop who has seized church property and intimidated clergy and worshipers.
In the capital city of Harare, the leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion handed Mugabe on October 10 a dossier with descriptions of attacks on parishioners and priests by supporters of excommunicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga, who left the Anglican Church in 2007, seized church property and locked out Anglicans from their church buildings.
Mugabe, who has maintained a tight grip on power for 30 years, has sided with the breakaway bishop. Williams told reporters that the dossier "gives a full account of the abuses to which our people and our church have been subject."
