Peter Oborne

British churchmen back Mugabe

Peter Oborne on the refusal of Anglican and Catholic bishops to denounce the tyranny in Zimbabwe

issue 24 May 2003

It is remarkable for Britain to be visited by a saint. But that was surely our good fortune last week, when Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, passed through London. This gentle and soft-spoken former goatherd is a man of great holiness. In a country where churchmen have kept quiet, Ncube has consistently spoken out with extraordinary courage and firmness against the near-genocide that Robert Mugabe is visiting upon the Zimbabwean people.

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