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	Church of Nigeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the Church of Nigeria is generally accepted to be the largest Anglican province reby number of worshippers.
		In September 2005, the Church in Nigeria reworded its constitution to redefine, from its point of view, the Anglican Communion.
		On 20th September 1997 the Chuch of Nigeria was split in 3 ecclesiastical Provinces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_Nigeria (422 words)

	No. 1253: Nigeria's Anglican Church breaks away over homosexuality rift
		The Church of Nigeria, lead by Archbishop Peter Akinola declared in a statement that all references to "communion with the see of Canterbury" had been deleted from the constitution at a meeting last week.
		Let me say again that the recent actions of the Church of Nigeria were not the "preemptive strike" of a single voice but rather the deliberate, prayerful and unanimous action of the more than 800 members of our General Synod.
		One thing is sure the Church of Nigeria remains committed to the abiding truth of God's Word and the unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/1253.html (1306 words)

	Anglican Church of Nigeria
		The church should not be deceived by the outward success but take note of the loopholes that may change her testimony, especially in the training the future ministers of the organization.
		The church is a worshipping and evangelistic church.
		The three-fold leadership ministry in the Anglican Church of Nigeria are: deaconate, priesthood and bishopric.
	users.accesscomm.ca /theadeboguns/anglican_church_of_nigeria.htm (10457 words)

	Persecuted Church News - Nigeria: Muslim Muscle in the North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nigeria became an independent nation on 1 October 1960 and entrenched ethnic tensions and power struggles began to simmer.
		The Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association believes that the authorities are aiming to wipe out all signs of Christianity quickly, and then possibly offer vacant land outside the city limits to churches that wish to rebuild (funded by whom?).
		Also, four churches were torched in Jigawa state in mid June by rioting Muslim youths, after the publication of a book by a Christian author was branded blasphemous by Muslims.
	www.worldevangelical.org /textonly/3persec_nigeria_07jul01.html (466 words)

	Africa: Nigeria - Christian Reformed Church
		Today Nigeria is World Missions' largest mission field in terms of both the number of staff assigned to the country and the diversity of ministries.
		Nigeria is a strategic country for missionaries in Africa.
		The Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv (NKST).
	www.crcna.org /pages/crwm_glance_nigeria.cfm (737 words)

	Cherubim & Seraphim Movement Church, Welcome Page
		By 1941, the first conference of the Movement was held at the Headquarters in Kaduna, Nigeria with four churches in attendance.
		With rapid growth of the Movement Churches within the four corners of Nigeria and overseas, the name was changed to the C and S Movement Churches - Nigeria and Overseas.
		Born in 1886, Pa Cooker later changed from being a Roman Catholic to an Anglican and was later introduced to the CandS Church by his friend Pa J A Phillips where he met with St. Moses Orimolade (founder of CandS Churches worldwide) who healed him of severe chest pain that defied all medical treatment.
	www.csmovementchurchusa.org /index.htm (676 words)

	Nigeria: Church Meeting, 2
		Relevant member churches of the WCC are encouraged to intensify advocacy work with the Secretariat of the Commonwealth and the European Union to ensure strict enforcement of all sanctions on Nigeria (arms bans, visa restrictions, sporting boycotts, etc.).
		An AACC delegation is encouraged to visit the churches and representatives of civil society in Nigeria with a view to increasing the awareness of AACC member churches of the crisis in the country.
		Nigerian churches and representatives of organizations both inside and outside Nigeria should be invited to attend the AACC International Affairs Board meeting in February 1997 to brief members on the situation in Nigeria.
	www.africaaction.org /docs97/nig9701.2.htm (1488 words)

	Vanguard -Viewpoint : Govt, CAN and the Church in Nigeria
		Churches are now being turned into family businesses, the worshippers are now shareholders without interests who are daily made to pay one levy or the other as their tickets to heaven.
		The government, the Christian Association of Nigeria and other relevant authorities must wade in to ensure that decency is brought to church ownership, regulation and operations in the country.
		It won’t be out of place to revisit the once touted taxation of some categories of churches at least for the down trodden to benefit from the wealth they (the churches) have refused to use to impact positively on their members and the society.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/viewpoints/vp104092006.html (649 words)

	Episcopal News Service
		There, and in subsequent gatherings, Akinola laid out his plan for the chaplaincy as a partnership between ECUSA and the Church of Nigeria, in which the chaplain is jointly responsible to the primate of Nigeria and to the presiding bishop of ECUSA.
		The 16 dioceses in Nigeria were constituted into the Province of Nigeria in February 1979, and the fast-growing church was split into three provinces in September 1997.
		Nigeria is one of Africa's most culturally and linguistically diverse countries, with 11 major ethnolinguistic groups and 350 or more languages spoken.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_19724_ENG_HTM.htm (1216 words)

	Church of the Word -- Communiqué from Church of Nigeria Synod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Episcopal Synod of the Church of Nigeria met under God at All Saints' church Abuja from 27th - 28th June 2006 with His Grace, The Most Rev. Peter J. Akinola, CON, DD, Archbishop, Primate and Metropolitan of All Nigeria presiding.
		Synod notes with satisfaction the efforts of the Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), His Grace, The Most Rev. Peter J. Akinola, in giving the Church of Nigeria, (CAPA and Global South a purposeful and effective leadership.
		While noting the efforts of Church in the HIV/AIDS Programme, it calls on all Dioceses and Churches to be actively involved in this project with a view to ensuring that this ugly monster does not further endanger the lives for which Christ died.
	www.pwcweb.com /ecw/windsor_rpt_con_communique_june_2006.html (791 words)

	Kale, Seth Irunsewe, Nigeria, Anglican church
		About eight furlongs south of Ijebu-Ode in the present Ogun State of Nigeria is the ancient town of Wobalufon where a child was born to the Bolukale family, and who was destined to become one of the great leaders of the Christian church in Africa--the Rt.
		In 1942 while still serving as principal, Kale was ordained a deacon at the Cathedral Church of Christ, and in 1943 he was ordained a priest on the anniversary of his diaconate.
		Kale, a shy modest man, not an ambitious leader in the church hierarchy, but a quite scholarly humanist whose life had been dedicated to the cause of religion and education, will ever be remembered in Africa.
	www.dacb.org /stories/nigeria/kale_seth.html (1417 words)

	The Church in Nigeria is "Not Growing, But Exploding"
		The church there is "not growing, but exploding" says Matthew Elliott, the Executive Vice-President of the Chicago-based Oasis International, a literature ministry that serves in "difficult places" and operates under the Oak Foundation.
		Nigeria, where Oasis manages wholesale book operations and one of the largest bookstore chains in the developing world, accounts for over 60% of all English speaking Africans and about 40% of the people who speak English in the target countries (excluding India).
		Assuming that Nigeria can use 50% of each print run, the remaining 50% can be made available at the same low cost in much smaller quantities divided among the other nations.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features-4/nigeria-church-exploding.html (2622 words)

	daily episcopalian: Human Rights and the Church of Nigeria
		Even more troubling than the Anglican Church of Nigeria endorsing the legislation, which would imprison the church's declared theological enemies, is the acquiescence of Archbishop Akinola's allies in the United States.
		Martyn Minns, now the Anglican Church of Nigeria's bishop in residence in the United States, provided a defense of the legislation that never mentioned the concrete prohibitions contained in the legislation, focusing instead on his belief that critics of Akinola were attacking him ad hominem.
		The Church of Nigeria is actively supporting the law in question.
	blog.edow.org /weblog/2006/09/human_rights_and_the_church_of.html (690 words)

	Anglican Communion News Service
		We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
		The report correctly notes that the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of New Westminster have pushed the Anglican Communion to the breaking point.
		The Episcopal Church and Diocese of New Westminster are already walking alone on this and if they do not repent and return to the fold, they will find that they are all alone.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/articles/39/00/acns3902.cfm (711 words)

	Religion in Nigeria
		He then went back and issued letters to all the Lutheran Churches in America including the Lutheran Hour Ministries informing them of the great door of opportunity that God was about to open to them in Nigeria.
		Members regard the operation as part of the evangelism program on the church and refer to the NLH as a mass media arm of the Lutheran Church of Nigeria.
		The close working relationship with the church is also beneficial to the ministry operations since it shields the studio from undue interference from other agencies.
	www.lutheranmedia.net /nigeria/articles/religioninnigeria.htm (1137 words)

	Anglican Communion Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nigeria’s Constitutional Revisions — The Rev. Ephraim Radner
		But perhaps this is all too “institutional” a set of concerns. On an absolute level it is of course true that our communion can only be upon the basis of the pure Gospel of our Lord as He Himself has offered it to us and held us within it.
		Accountability, as referring practically to the structures of the Church’s common discipline and mutual subjection, is therefore a doctrinal matter.
	www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org /articles/NigeriaNotes.htm (751 words)

	Anglican Communion:The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion)
		The rebirth of Christianity began with the arrival of Christian freed slaves in Nigeria in the middle of the nineteenth century.
		The Church Missionary Society established an evangelistic ministry, particularly in the south.
		The division of the Province of West Africa in 1979 formed the Province of Nigeria and the Province of West Africa.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /tour/province.cfm?ID=N (75 words)

	Christ The Rock Kingdom Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We established a degree awarding Bible College to train pastors at all levels for the local churches in Nigeria and West Africa since the inception of the college in 1984.
		We are also affiliated with ten churches at different towns and villages with an average membership of between 50 and 100 people each week.
		In 1984, Christ the Rock Kingdom Church and Bible College were established by Dr. Okah for the purposes of worshipping God and training pastors for the ministry.
	www.crkc.org (908 words)

	Encyclical to the Anglican membership in the church of Nigeria \| Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian ...
		The Primate, Archbishops and Bishops, on behalf of the clergy and laity of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), received the shocking news of the ratification of the liturgy for same-sex marriages and the subsequent same-sex marriage in the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada, under the Rt Revd M C Ingham.
		The Church of Nigeria unequivocally condemns the action of Bishop Ingham and the Diocese of Westminster, Canada, which constitutes a violation of Scripture and breaks faith with the popular resolutions of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
		The Church of England Newspaper of 10 April 2003 reported that Bishop Ingham is accused of bullying eleven (11) clergymen opposed to his unbiblical actions and threatening to revoke their license.
	www.christianpost.com /article/20030626/2005.htm (631 words)

	Anglican Church in Nigeria Welcomes Ban on Homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The spokesman for the Anglican church in Nigeria, Reverend Tunde Popoola, says the proposed ban is appropriate.
		Nigeria's cabinet Wednesday adopted a proposal to ban same-sex marriage as well as activities relating to gays and lesbians in Nigeria.
		The public in Nigeria is generally hostile to homosexuality, and the Anglican Church is the most vocal critic of same-sex marriage.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-01-19-voa55.cfm (545 words)

	Anglican Church of Nigeria Installs Bishop From America
		Priests in white and red robes congregated around the pulpit, as the head of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, administered oaths to four new bishops, including 63-year-old Martyn Minns of the United States.
		The Anglican Church in Nigeria severed contacts with the Episcopal Church since the consecration of Reverend Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, as Bishop of the U.S. state of New Hampshire in 2003.
		However, in Nigeria, the establishment of an Anglican missionary organization in the United States is seen as a huge achievement and one that calls for the drums to be rolled out for celebration.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-08-21-voa36.cfm (522 words)

	Olugu Ume, Robert, Nigeria, Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He served as a primary school teacher in Church of Scotland Mission schools and was ordained as a minister of the gospel in 1940.
		Robert brought civilization and enlightenment to all the places where he taught and served as a minister of the gospel in the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (formerly Church of Scotland Mission).
		One of his sons is a minister of the gospel in the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and two others are elders in the church.
	www.dacb.org /stories/nigeria/olugu_ume.html (345 words)

	titusonenine » Blog Archive » CHURCH OF NIGERIA REDEFINES ANGLICAN COMMUNION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The church constitution specifies that the Church of Nigeria is part of the Anglican Communion.
		Nigeria, then with this proclamation is placing itself under the authority of an Anglican Communion that may be separate from Canterbury, recognizing that Canterbury is a political instrument of the UK government rather than a leader of a Christian Church.
		Nigeria is declaring that this definition is likely to be the future Anglican definition, in contrast to the current definition of communion with a British government appointee.
	titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /?p=9018 (14952 words)

	Church of Nigeria: The Episcopal Church compared to “a cancerous lump” \| Kevin Basil
		Church of Nigeria: The Episcopal Church compared to “a cancerous lump”
		Church of Nigeria: The Episcopal Church compared to “a cancerous lump”
		The Archbishop says we “have tried to be a family of Churches willing to learn from each other across cultural divides, not assuming that European (or American or African) wisdom is what settles everything, opening up the lives of Christians here to the realities of Christian experience everywhere”.
	blog.kevinbasil.com /2006/07/09/church-of-nigeria (317 words)

	St. Anselm of Canterbury - University of Oklahoma
		During the Reformation in the 16th Century, Henry VIII declared the Church of England independent of the Roman Catholic Church with himself as its head.
		The Episcopal Church is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, the churches around the world that trace their roots to the Church of England, and maintain a “communion” with it, hence the name “Anglican.” Other members of the Communion include the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Nigeria.
		The Church, as a worshiping body of faithful people, has for two thousand years amassed experience of God and of loving Jesus, and what they have said to us through the centuries about the Bible is critical to our understanding it in our own context.
	www.ou.edu /student/canterbury/churchinfo.htm (650 words)

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