Just and true.Dear editor, Re: Church carefully weighs divestment divestment to strip one's investment from an entity. issue (January). The primate primate, member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, or lower primates. The group can be traced to the late Cretaceous period, where members were forest dwellers. , Archbishop Andrew Hutchison Andrew Sandford Hutchison L.Th., D.D, D.C.L. (h.c.) (born in Toronto in 1938), is a retired Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Prior to his election at the General Synod of 2004, he was the bishop of Montreal and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Canada (which, , states that Anglicans must attempt to "have a balance" when dealing with the issue of Israel-Arab conflict. He dismisses the issue of justice to the oppressed op·press tr.v. op·pressed, op·press·ing, op·press·es 1. To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny. 2. and the dispossessed dis·pos·sessed adj. 1. Deprived of possession. 2. Spiritually impoverished or alienated. dis , and consequently and indirectly lends support to the powerful occupiers of Palestinian land who have caused a kind of a "tsunami" there with huge devastation, immense suffering and death. The issue of justice is central to the Gospel and is reflected in the song of Mary, "... and scattered the proud with all their plans. He has brought down mighty kings from their thrones and lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away with empty hands." Where is the balance in this song? The mighty Roman occupiers and the oppressed people? The archbishop will serve the cause of peace between Israelis and Palestinians by lending support to what is just and true. Rafiq Farah Archdeacon Emeritus Toronto |
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