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Bishop Rubin Phillip's UnFreedom Day Speech

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-04-30 14:53.

SPEECH DELIVERED TO: ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO EVENT FOR UNFREEDOM DAY

KENNEDY ROAD COMMUNITY HALL, CLARE ESTATE, DURBAN, KZN, 27TH APRIL 2008

BY BISHOP RUBIN PHILLIP, ANGLICAN BISHOP OF NATAL AND CHAIRPERSON OF THE KWA-ZULU NATAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL

For many years the courage and dignity of our people under oppression was a light to the world.

There was a time when our country was a light to the world. But that light has grown so dim that there is a real danger of it being extinguished altogether.

Today millions of our people live in shacks in life threatening conditions, constantly at risk of fire and disease because they have no electricity or sanitation, while we build stadiums, casinos and theme parks.

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Christmas Message from Bishop Rubin Phillip

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2008-01-17 10:04.

24th December 2007

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

THE HOSPITALITY OF GOD

One of the most sad and moving expressions surrounding the birth of Jesus is to be found in these words from the Bible: “and there was no room for them in the inn.” So Mary gives birth to Jesus outside the place in which he was to be born. He is born in a manger or stall for the housing of animals.

Paradoxically, this “visitor from on high” finds no room, no hospitality, in the city which he can call his own. His birth takes place on the margins, beginning a pattern to be realized over and over in his life and ministry. The visitor from God, who could not find hospitality in his own city, will nonetheless introduce to, and institute in the world the hospitality of God. The poor, marginalized shepherds of Bethlehem were the first to experience it.

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