Sin, corruption and Islam: Justin Welby on the threats facing the Anglican Communion
By Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today:
The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday painted a stark and gloomy picture of a Church struggling to survive in the face of sin, corruption, Islam and an increasingy secular, anti-Christian culture in the West.
The Anglican voice is increasingly needed in a world where religious war is spreading, and the secular world has no answer to it and does not even understand the nature of religion, Archbishop Justin Welby said in his opening address to his 38 fellow Primates meeting in Canterbury.
“Islam is engaged in more and more violent activity in its civil war. Its violent arms subvert, attack, kill and destroy without mercy or conscience, as Christians did during the reformation. Islam’s mainstream leaders, at peace but much menaced, look for friends, how do we respond?”
Welby also said that climate change is another huge danger, noting that many of the 38 Anglican Communion provinces represented at the Primates Meeting at Canterbury are in parts of the world that “are literally drowning”.
The Archbishop’s address was leaked from the private meeting. It was not published officially by thePrimates 2016 website or the Archbishop’s office. Although his office declined to comment, there was no denial that he had delivered the speech.
The speech was, at times, almost desperate.
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