Creeping Catastrophe - Church Scot

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BBC 1 TV: Reporting Scotland, 1740 GMT 10th April 1990.

The Board of World Mission and Unity of the Church of Scotland
today severely criticised political leaders for disregarding
their warning that war in the Gulf would lead to a "creeping
catastrophe" of refugee suffering.

Secretary of the Board, Rev Chris Wigglesworth, said the Church
had warned politicians against the "quick fix" approach of war,
and that the consequence of what has happend is now manifest in
the Kurdish situation. He added that the Church took no pleasure
in being proven right, and that the West must learn to LISTEN
more to the voice of peoples in Africa and the Middle East.

Commenting further on the Report on World Poverty to be presented
next month at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Rev
Norman Shanks, Convenor of the Church and Nation Committee,
expressed the hope that while the eyes of the world are rightly
on the Kurds, people would not forget about the suffering
continuing in Africa.

{Nb. The C of S is the largest denomination in Scotland. It has a
status equivalent to that of the Church of England south of the
border, but it is not a part of the Anglican Communion, being a
presbyterian rather than an episcopal church (ie. it has
something akin to grass roots government rather than Bishops, and
the Prime Minister and Queen do not have significant roles in
running its affairs.}



Alastair McIntosh.

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