Episcopal Press and News

Special Guests of Convention

Episcopal News Service. July 14, 1988 [88157]

DETROIT (DPS, July 14) -- Three major Christian leaders from overseas were special guests of the Presiding Bishop at General Convention. Each appeared before Convention and held separate news conferences. (L-R) Anglican Bishop K.H. Ting, President of the China Christian Council and leader of the People's Republic of China's 4 million Protestant Christians; the Rev. Dr. Emilio Castro, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches and an Uruguayan Mennonite pastor; and Anglican Bishop Samir Kafity, President of the Central Synod of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and Bishop of Jerusalem. (Photos: John Fisher)