Hugo Chavez launches his own church: CEN 7.06.08 July 6, 2008
Posted by geoconger in Church of England Newspaper, Politics, Venezuela.trackback
| Anglican, Lutheran and Roman Catholic clergy have consecrated three priests as bishops of a new church loyal to Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
Last Saturday the dissident churchman formed the Reformed Catholic Church of Venezuela in a ceremony in the western city of Ciudad Ojeda. Organized along Anglican principles, the “Bolivarian” church seeks to combine the socialist ideals of the president and nationalist heritage of Simon Bolivar — the country’s founder — with the tenets of liberation theology. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper. |
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