List Middle East, Pakistan Projects
Diocesan Press Service. April 7, 1964 [XX-5]
The Rt. Rev. Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., Anglican executive officer, has recently circulated a list of current projects for the Middle East and Pakistan.
The 30 projects are divided into nine categories: training of ordinands, training of the laity, primary evangelism, new resources for new areas, development of episcopal and diocesan ministry, education, hospital and medical services, literature and communication, and provincial and inter-provincial life.
Pakistan, although a part of the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon, was made one with the Jerusalem Archbishopric in the proposal on Regional Officers made by the Advisory Council on Missionary Strategy in August, 1963. The CIPBC Episcopal Synod at Ranchi, in 1963, agreed that the two diocese of West Pakistan (Karachi and Lahore) should plan for their needs on their own. East Pakistan will continue, for the time being, to be included in the general program of the CIPBC.
It was also announced recently that the Rt. Rev. John W. Sadiq, Bishop of Nagpur, India, has become the first of a proposed nine regional officers of the Anglican Communion. By concurrent action of the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon; the Archbishop of Canterbury; and the Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Sadiq has been named as the responsible officer for the 15 Anglican dioceses in Ceylon, India and East Pakistan.