Archbishop Of Canterbury Justin Welby Answers Listeners Questions
with Nick Ferrari, LBC: The Archbishop of Canterbury is live in the LBC studio from 9am to answer listeners’ questions.
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Archbishop Justin Welby’s Amritsar apology was aimed at appeasing British Hindus
by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s prostration at Amritsar was intended to appease a powerful British Hindu lobby who wrote to Lambeth Palace demanding an apology and calling General Dyer, responsible for the massacre, “a white supremacist and devout Anglican,” interfaith sources have disclosed. The letter from the Global Hindu Federation (GHF) quoted Anglican repentance for “the Church’s colonialist ‘methodology’” issued by Canadian Anglican archbishops Michael Peers...
read moreIndian MP mocks Archbishop Justin Welby’s Amritsar apology as “self-flagellation”
by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest: A distinguished member of India’s parliament has derided the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Amritsar apology as “a form of self-flagellation that may appeal to multiculturalism … but doesn’t alter the way India thinks of contemporary Britain.” Dr. Swapan Dasgupta, recipient of the Padma Bhushan (India’s third highest civilian award) for literature in 2015, dismissed “the issue of colonial guilt” as “principally a British domestic issue.” Dasgupta, an influential...
read moreWelby’s India Trip Proves to be Major Miscalculation in Ecclesiastical Diplomacy
by David W Virtue, Virtueonline: If there is one single reason why Justin Welby should step down as the leader of some 80 million Anglicans, it would be his recent disastrous trip to the subcontinent of India. He dropped the ball by failing miserably to address the real issues that bewail Indian Anglicans, namely vast financial corruption by its bishops and the open persecution of Christians. He virtue-signaled over a 100-year old slaughter of unarmed Indian civilians where Indian Christians...
read moreAbp. Justin Welby cites a non-existent convention to justify silence on abortion
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant: The Anglican archbishop of Canterbury has come under severe criticism for apologizing for a historical massacre in India while citing a non-existent convention to excuse his absence from a parliamentary debate on abortion. None of the 26 bishops who serve as voting members of the House of Lords were present during the debate on July 17 for the critical vote that resulted in the imposition of abortion on Northern Ireland. Justin Welby has now defended the...
read moreArchbishop Justin Welby at Jallianwala Bagh
by Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden: The London Times has reported “that the Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed his “profound regret and shame” for the massacre of more than 400 unarmed Indian civilians by British Indian army troops a century ago. “Prostrating himself before a memorial to those shot in the Jallianwala Bagh walled garden in Amritsar, the Most Rev Justin Welby said that the shootings were a crime and a sin. “The action was ordered in 1919 by General Reginald Dyer in response to...
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