Raymond Franz and UN (part 2)

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  • Henriksen
    Henriksen

    On December 20 hawk wrote:

    Re: Raymond Franz and UN Dec 20, 2001 20:41

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    he is keeping tabs on the whole affair but didn't seem overly intested.
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    Interesting but I am a little suprised.

    Why?

    Remember this is a man who took a whole chapter (6 if I remember) to "slam" the WTS and the GB over its Malawi policy and another chapter over military service.

    This chapter 6 of C of C was by far a killer from my point of view.

    One would think if one take great pains to expose what happened in Mexico for Malawi and the military duty stuff, he would be interested in this business.

    hawk

    I'm in some way sure of that Ray Franz must know something about the WTS and GB's attitude concerning cooperating with the UN.

    Some years ago while doing some research on The Watch Tower Movement and the early history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Africa I read an article mentioning some sort of cooperation between WTS and UN during the persecution of JW in Malawi/Mozambique in the 70s. I can't find my copy of the article, but maybe those of you in US might find something in the archives of the UN on this subject?

    SBR Henriksen

  • biblexaminer
    biblexaminer

    Listen. If you re-examine the posts you are "quoting" from, you will see that I posted this...he is keeping tabs on the whole affair but didn't seem overly intested.

    I called Ray up to check on some books, and while I had him on the phone, I touched on the UN-WTS issue. He had nothing to say. He didn't seem interested, and that's well and good. I did not ask for a "public statement" or a 'Ray press release'. I asked as one friend to another -in passing.

    Ray has had no connection to the UN thing. What he has had a connection to, he has generously written about.

    And if you check the posts, as I suggested above, I said basically there what I say again here.

    Leave Ray out of it.

  • sf
    sf

    < http://www.liu.se/irv/unima/biblio.htm#Watchtower/Jehovah's%20Witnesses

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    9 Religion in General

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    Chamalaka, D.S., "Influence of Religion on Business", research paper, Chancellor College, Zomba, 1992, 12pp. From examination of the names given to businesses, the study concludes that religion has an influence on business in Malawi. CC/TRS/1992/8

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    Moto, Francis, "Religion in Malawian Literature", Faith and Knowledge Seminar No. 44, Chancellor College, Zomba, 1996, 16pp. A literary analysis of Josiah Phiri's Kalenga ndi Mnzache, with particular atten tion to the symbolism used to convey the superiority of Christianity to traditional ways. CC/TRS/1996/16

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    Mphande, David K., "Moral Education in the Formal School System", in a Report on Consultative Stake-holders Workshop to Review the General and the Social Studies Syllabus for Primary Schools and Teacher Training Colleges, Malawi Institute of Education/USAID Through GABLE PPC. Domasi, 1996, pp. 54-72.

    Mphande, David K., "Religious Education: a New Approach in Primary Education", Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 54 (1993), Johannes burg, South Africa.

    Mphande, David K., Themes in Religious Education: A Handbook for Teacher Trainers, edited by J.R. Hauya, Domasi: Malawi Institute of Education.

    Msiska, Augustine W.C., "The Study of Cultural History in Malawi", seminar paper, Chancellor College, Zomba, 1991, 26pp. Notes the contributions of early missionaries and settlers to cultural history and calls on Malawians to write objective history of Malawian culture from a phenomenological point of view. CC/TRS/1991/11

    Msiska, Augustine W.C., "Towards a Cultural History of Malawi. The Case of Colonialism and Yao Initiation Rites 1891-1961", MA, Univer sity of Malawi, 1992, 223pp.

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    Schoffeleers, Matthew, "Economic Change and Religious Polarization in an African Rural District", in John McCracken (ed.), Malawi - An Alter native Pattern of Development, Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, 1985, pp. 187-242. Notes that before 1970 the people of Nsanje, both ATR adherents and Christians, lived in harmony and participated in one another's religious rites but that, since then, religious polarization has set in as people identify themselves either with Pentecostal churches or with the (neo-traditionalist) Church of Ancestors. MAL HC 935 MAL 1985

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    Journals held by Theological Institutions in Malawi

    Key

    BTS
    Baptist Theological Seminary, Lilongwe

    CC
    Chancellor College, University of Malawi

    KI
    Kachere Institute, University of Malawi

    KMS
    Kachebere Major Seminary

    LBI
    Likubula Bible Institute, Blantyre

    SPMS
    St Peter's Major Seminary, Zomba

    TRS
    Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Malawi

    ZTC
    Zomba Theological College

  • sf
  • avengers
    avengers
    Leave Ray out of it.

    Leave me out of it.
    Leave him out of it.
    Leave everybody out of it.

    Keep all the info for yourself, and shut up.

    Might as well go back to the borg.

  • Henriksen
    Henriksen

    To: biblexaminer

    Listen. If you re-examine the posts you are "quoting" from, you will see that I posted this...he is keeping tabs on the whole affair but didn't seem overly intested.

    Sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my writting. My point wasn't to draw in Ray, only a question for help or a cloue on how to search on the UN archives.

    To: sf

    Thanks for the references, but I already know of them.

    SBR Henriksen

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