"UK Manchester Cathedral calls Muslims to prayer."
Not Christian prayers of course but prayers of worshippers who believe in a political ideology which denies that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, relegating Him to the role of a minor prophet.
The Dean of Manchester was awarded an MBE in 2018 for his services to interfaith relations but Iftar in the cathedral goes way beyond good relations.
In Islamic countries many Christians are in fear of their lives for their faith.
Recently in the UK, not far from Manchester, death threats were sent to pupils who had been suspended from school for accidentally damaging a copy of the Quran.
Following the love and faith debacle the Church of England appears to have completely lost the plot.
Postscript [07.04.2023]
From Church Times: "The Chapter of Manchester Cathedral has apologised for allowing the Muslim call to prayer to be made in the cathedral at an interfaith event last week.
"The Open Iftar event on Wednesday of last week was organised by the Ramadan Tent Project, a Muslim charity. An Iftar is the meal that breaks the day’s Ramadan fast..."
"C of E guidance for churches and cathedrals hosting an Iftar says that the adhan 'should happen in the room allocated for prayer, rather than a consecrated space'." Article here.
What hope for the Church of England if they can't tell the difference between the redeeming love of Christianity and a punishing political ideology?
Disgraceful.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they won't learn until their new best friends throw the latest Dean of Canterbury Cathedral off the top of the bell tower.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/05/drag-queen-story-time-allowed-schools-teachers-union-neu/
ReplyDeleteThe NEU should be proscribed by the Church of England but will even a single Bishop speak out against this unspeakable filth?
Another reason I would home-school my children if they were still that young.
DeleteThe swamp of filth from the cult in Wales has spread eastwards over Offa's trench.
Deletebrilliant to see
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65203633
ReplyDeleteSack them all.
And while you're at it, sack all the heretic Bishops in the UK.
The Chapter of Manchester Cathedral.
ReplyDeleteGullible fools.
The devil has taken over our government and church, all that was wrong is now deemed to be right. Wokeism has been used to stifle free speech, the mention of God`s rules and His message of salvation for sinners. But as my dear mother used to say "Nid yw Duw yn cysgu / God is not sleeping". Therefore to the enablers and doers of all this wickedness beware for your day of judgement is coming far quicker than you think !
ReplyDeleteDoes the Anglican Church stand for anything any more ... AB's title page.
ReplyDeleteLook no further than Bangor Cathedral for the answer 'No'. Apparently for months now clergy subordinate to His Pontiff Sion ap-Rhys have been instructed to include into weekly Eucharist service brief Intercessions prayers for the 'suffering people' of CUBA! Suffering? Cuba? In same context as Syria or the Ukraine, Aghanistan or Yemen?
Apparently, one of the brave supporting-cast clergy asked the curate-sub-Dean why Cuba is included in this direct prayer to God every week. There are no wars in Cuba, the economy is relatively good, relations with the USA now OK, British tourists love the place, no earthquakes or hurricanes. All good.
Answer is that the Cathedral has a new and regular Cuban national among its congregation who has demanded prayers as part of his political objection to the regime in Havana. So to retain patronage, Dean Rhys has agreed. This is akin to 'Cash-for-Questions' in Parliament or unsavoury lobbying ... except that Prayers of Intercession are directed to God.
Outrageous. If - and I no longer do - attend a C-in-W church and instructed its priest to gather its entire congregation to pray for - for instance - the 'suffering' people of the Isle of Wight because I had some gripe against its local parish council chairman, should he/she agree it. Of course not. This is prostitution of the sub-Dean's office. There are standards of behaviour - he should learn.
Old Bill