Nadi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:39:59 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Nadi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Anglican Church defends decision to hold Synod in Fiji https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/10/anglican-synod-meeting-in-fiji/ Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:30:41 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=29279

The Anglican Church is defending its decision to hold its General Synod in Fiji, saying it is actively encouraging a return to a duly elected parliament. Archbishop David Moxon, and Bishops Brown Turei and Winston Halapua say the church is trying to keep open the lines of communication with the present Fijian administration. Archbishop Moxon Read more

Anglican Church defends decision to hold Synod in Fiji... Read more]]> The Anglican Church is defending its decision to hold its General Synod in Fiji, saying it is actively encouraging a return to a duly elected parliament.

Archbishop David Moxon, and Bishops Brown Turei and Winston Halapua say the church is trying to keep open the lines of communication with the present Fijian administration.

Archbishop Moxon says all issues considered at the Synod, including Fiji governance, will be given the same kind of respect and honour that was shown when Synod members were welcomed on Friday.

He said the Synod will encourage and pray for the journey, that is underway, to free elections and democratic governance in Fiji.

Strict guidelines from the Fijian military regime meant permits had to be obtained to hold the synod, which will run from 7th to 12th July at the Tanoa International Hotel in Nadi. 160 senior church members, from New Zealand and elsewhere in the Pacific, are attending it .

The General Synod is the main forum for discussion and decision making in the Anglican Church and it meets every two years. It has not visited Polynesia since 1990.

The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, is a constitutionally autonomous member of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia encompasses the area described by its title. The 1992 Constitution of this Church provides for three partners to order their affairs within their own cultural context. Within Aotearoa New Zealand, Tikanga Pakeha comprises seven Dioceses, Tikanga Maori comprises five Hui Amorangi, the boundaries of which differ from those of the dioceses. Tikanga Pasefika encompasses Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands, and is known as the Diocese of Polynesia.

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Three floods in three years have destroyed or severely damaged homes and businesses in Nadi, Fiji's third largest town. Graham Davis reports these repeated disasters are being "regarded as no coincidence". Davis says that developments upstream and downstream are contributing to the severity of the flooding problem. "In truth, the town has always sat on Read more

Allegations that Fiji Floods have a man made element... Read more]]> Three floods in three years have destroyed or severely damaged homes and businesses in Nadi, Fiji's third largest town.

Graham Davis reports these repeated disasters are being "regarded as no coincidence".

Davis says that developments upstream and downstream are contributing to the severity of the flooding problem.

"In truth, the town has always sat on a flood plain," he says, "yet flood waters have only reached the commercial centre once in a decade at most. But three times in three years and with such ferocity?"

 

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