Monday, September 19, 2005
APOLOGIES ARE IN
It comes from an Arabic news source via a link at New Oxford Review:
The Church of England offered Monday to take the lead in reconciling with Muslims by apologizing to their leaders for the US-led war in Iraq if the British government fails to do so.
The proposal was contained in a report, entitled "Countering Terrorism: Power, Violence and Democracy Post-9/11" which written by a working group of the Church of England's House of Bishops.
"We do believe that the church has a visionary role for reconciliation, beyond that of any government," the Bishop of Oxford, Right Reverend Richard Harris, told BBC radio.
"The Christian church in particular has a mandate to work for reconciliation," he said.
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