NIGERIAN CONSERVATIVES and their accomplices led by Bishop Ikechi Nwosu of the Church of Nigeria VERBALLY ATTACK

Kingston, Jamaica
May 11, 2009
The 14th Meeting of The Anglican Consultative Council

BREAKING NASTINESS:

NIGERIAN CONSERVATIVES and their accomplices led by Bishop Ikechi Nwosu* of the Church of Nigeria VERBALLY ATTACK AND ABUSE COLIN COWARD OF ¨CHANGING ATTITUDES¨ on ¨public¨ grounds near the Anglican Consultative Council Meeting in JAMAICA TODAY!


Conservatives(?) ¨busy¨ at The Anglican Consultative Council in Jamaica when this picture was taken.

¨I came to Jamaica in the knowledge that it is a very homophobic country and I would need to be very careful and discrete here. I assumed that if I were to be threatened, it would be by a hostile Jamaican man. I was wrong. I have been threatened this morning by Bishop Ikechi Nwosu* of the Church of Nigeria, reinforced by the Ven Dr Abraham Okorie, the Nigerian clergy delegate.

Conservative plots are nothing new to me, nor will they be to those reading this blog. I was reminded of the attempt by Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma to exorcise Richard Kirker at Lambeth 1998.. What has shocked me this morning is Bishop Nwosu’s* attempt to threaten and intimidate me. Isn’t this what conservatives are doing all the time to our Communion, all the time trying to hide behind a façade of niceness and reasonableness?

Stanley Isaacs also leapt upstairs after me and turned his anger on a group of American journalists standing in the foyer. The atmosphere for me now is very unpleasant here. I know there is a Nigerian bishop present whose anger is almost uncontrollable.¨ read it all, direct TODAY from the Anglican Consultative Council MEETING in Jamaica, click HERE


We´ve seen this kind of secrecy and behind-the-scene and disruptive, shameful, secret planning which seems an attempt to manipulate, control and take-over Anglican Meeting outcomes before.The Archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during The Primates Meeting in 2007...a silly scampering down the stairs after a hook-up with Martyn Minns, his North American ¨editor/advisor¨ and CANA/GAFCON accomplice.

*Church of Nigeria Redefines Anglican Communion, read about part of the original groundwork for the Nigerian ¨takeover¨ and scroll down and NOTE the signatures on the ¨Advisory Committee¨, click HERE

NIGERIA/CANA redefining The Anglican Communion has been going on from 2004 and long before: ¨The Church is a part of the Convocation for Anglicans in North America A Mission of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, the orthodox group in North America that the World Wide Anglican Communion will recognize in the American Church.¨
The Rt. Rev'd Nathan C.O. Kanu, read it all, click HERE

RECENT and DEADLY/DANGEROUS ATTACKS against LGBT ANGLICANS/others on-the-ground in AFRICA:

CURRENT proclamations in Africa at the Anglican Communion: Christian anti-LGBT extremist alert, complete updates, smearing, more abusive THREATS and slander from Nigeria and Uganda, read it all, it´s extensive, it´s REAL, it´s dangerous to the physical, emotional and spiritual health of LGBT Anglicans/Christians our families and our friends and other innocents and it´s happening NOW, click HERE

UPDATED MONDAY AFTERNOON: Davis Mac-Iyalla, Director of Changing Attitude Nigeria, has sent a message of reassurance following Colin Cowards encounter with Bishop Nwosu

¨Davis is glad “that I came out alive from an encounter with such people who can do anything to achieve their own goals in the Communion in the name of Christianity.” I don’t think I am at risk of being killed here in the Jamaica Pegasus hotel but Davis’s comment reminds me that many Nigerian LGBT people are threatened with death and killed because of their sexuality.

The incredible anger expressed by the bishop to me shows me what gay Nigerians can expect if they dare to make themselves visible. Davis did that, initially in Nigeria and then from the relative safety of Togo where he received death threats and was physically attacked. The Church of Nigeria claimed there was no proof they were implicated in the threats or attack.

My experience this morning shows me that Nigerian bishops are perfectly capable of threatening and intimidating people – and if they will do that to me in the context of an ACC meeting, how much more feely will they attack and abuse those they disagree with at home in Nigeria...¨ read it all, a note from Changing Attitudes Director, Nigeria, click HERE

LGBT ANGLICANS, OUR FAMILIES, OUR FRIENDS ARE CALLED ´SATANIC´ at The Anglican Church of Nigeria

How do LGBT Anglican Nigerians endure satanic claims? read it all, click HERE

READ ABOUT THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO WISHES TO RULE THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

¨Bishop exposes schismatic's leadership style and agenda¨, read it all, click HERE

THINKING ANGLICANS REPORTS COLIN COWARDS ¨Encounter¨ with NIGERIAN Bishop Ikechi Nwosu

Colin Coward has had an encounter with a Nigerian bishop, see Nigerian bishop not Jamaican homophobe threatens UK gay activist, What might the conservative strategy be? and also How do LGBT Anglican Nigerians endure satanic claims? read it all at THINKING ANGLICANS, click HERE

UPDATED ON THURSDAY, May 14th (By Colin Coward back in The United Kingdom) Restored relationship with Bishop Nwosu from Nigeria

¨I received a gift in the long queue leading into the Departure Lounge at the Airport in Kingston, Jamaica as I began my journey home. I found myself standing next to Canon Phil Groves and in front of Bishop Nwosu from Nigeria with whom I'd had the unpleasant encounter. We had smiled at each other in passing when we met in the hotel and I had wondered about opening a conversation with him. Now I was given the opportunity as we queued for 20 minutes.¨ read it all, click HERE

·Thanks to Changing Attitudes, United Kingdom, at the right sidebar
·Thanks to Changing Attitudes, Nigeria
·Thanks to Davis Mac-Iyalla
·Thanks to The Reverend Colin Coward
·Thanks to James at The Three Legged Stool, at the right sidebard
·Thanks to Thinking Anglicans, at the right sidebar
·Thanks to Flickr Photosharing