Anglicans of the Global South publish interactive Website
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Singapore, November, 2005- Since many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as they were told by eyewitnesses or third party reports, it seemed good also to the secretariat of the Global South having all relevant documents and recordings of the activities of the fellowship to write an orderly account of the third encounter of the body. What better way to circulate it worldwide than by placing such relevant information on a website- www.globalsouthanglican.org accessible to all and making the site able to receive comments from all over the world.
The advantages of the site according to the coordinator of the project, The Rev. Terry Wong of Singapore include the accurate reporting of the activities of the organization as against the present situation where different bodies and journalists only report what is of utmost interest to them while ignoring the other issues that make up the full context. Other advantages are the encouragement of the faithful through the talks and messages shared by the delegates during their encounters as well as the strengthening of communication and thereby the organizational structure and ministry of the body.
With most of the members of the Anglican Communion located in the southern hemisphere, communications is a major hindrance to the development of strong bonds between the different southern autonomous Dioceses and Provinces. With relatively poorer telecommunications facilities than what is available in the West, information dissemination had been rather slow giving the more liberal sections of the Church opportunities to shape opinions long before the actual information gets to majority of members of the Global South.
The secretary of the working committee of the Global South, the Rt. Rev. John Chew of Singapore believes the website is important and the Chair of the group the Most Rev. Peter Akinola of Nigeria while approving the site said the domain name couldn't be better.
Though the development of the website is yet to be completed and there is still a whole lot of information to be uploaded on the site, it was made public to correct the different interpretations being given to the third encounter which was off limits to journalists. It is envisaged that a full revelation of the various messages, talks, and group discussions will give an indication to how the encounter arrived at the final communiqué.
The Secretariat hopes with time to be able to add further information from the Red Sea encounter as well as information from the first two encounters held in Nairobi 1994, and Kular Lumpur 1997.
