First Sri Lanka ordained Anglican women say dream comes true
New Delhi (ENI 2 October 2006). The first women priests in Sri Lanka's Anglican church say their ordination is a dream come true. "I have no words to describe my joy," the Rev. Chandrika Mayurawathie, one of the first three women ordained in September into the Church of Ceylon told Ecumenical News International. "I have waited and prayed for this ordination for years," said Mayurawathie, who completed a bachelor's degree in theology in 1996 and was speaking from Colombo.
French debate proposed changes to law on Church and State
Paris (ENI 2 October 2006). A report presented to French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked controversy by proposing to amend the country's strict laws separating church and state by allowing local authorities to finance the construction of new places of worship. The proposal drawn up by a committee under Paris law professor Jean-Pierre Machelon is seen by its supporters as responding to the lack of places of worship in France for Muslims and evangelical Protestants, two religious traditions almost totally absent from the country when the separation of Church and State was approved in 1905.
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