Anglican Bishop sees hope of breakthrough on Gays and Zimbabwe

The recently appointed Dean of Central Africa, the Rt Rev Trevor Musonda Mwamba, believes Anglican churches will soon return to their grassroots mission to alleviate poverty, disease and injustice and abandon their current "fixation" on homosexuality.
His words of optimism come against a background of growing concern that the on-going "rights for gays" debate in the 75 million-strong worldwide Anglican community could wreck unity in that church throughout Africa before next year's Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England.
A report from AFP reported recently that an Anglican cleric in Harare - speaking anonymously - said that the church in Zimbabwe would "disassociate and sever relationship with any individual, group or people, organisation, institution, diocese, province or people who indulge in or sympathise or compromise with homosexuality."
Talking to The Zimbabwean shortly before that " bombshell" statement from the church in Zimbabwe, which is increasingly under the control of Bishop Nolbert Kunonga and his political mentor Robert Mugabe, Bishop Trevor said: "I believe there will be a forward movement, even a breakthrough, on this issue when leaders of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) meet in Mauritius next month.
"Most African Anglicans want to get back to basics and concentrate on poverty, disease, injustice and the need for transparency in governments," he said in a telephone interview from his office in Gaborone. Anglican Bishop sees hope of breakthrough on Gays and Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean