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Jul,11-2016 18:19:45
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BOSTON--The judge presiding over the bitter dispute at the Kenyan All Saints Community church in Boston has dismissed the lawsuit brought by 59 members of the church challenging Rev. Fredrick Thanji's unilateral plans for choosing a successor and attempting to kick out dissenting members.
However, at the same time, Judge Jeffery Locke of the Norfolk Superior Court said that the court would stop the pastor from kicking out the dissenting members by preventing them from pursuing the dispute resolution they are looking for as valid church members since 2002 through the avenues laid out in the disputed 2012 church Constitution. The judge ruled that there was enough evidence to show that the church had been following a governing structure laid out in the 2002 Constitution presented to the court, and that the same Constitution was used as a template by the Church Council to try and revamp it to the now hotly disputed 2012 Constitution. "Although this Court is not persuaded that the 2012 Constitution was validly adopted by the church membership, the defendant (Rev. Thanji) may well be stopped from denying plaintiff (suing group) the right to pursue their grievance according to the disputed resolution mechanism he contends is controlling here," ruled the judge in a 12 page ruling obtained by Ajabu Media. At the same time, even before the ruling was issued early Tuesday morning, shocking developments emerged at the troubled church when the pastor, Rev. Fredrick Thanji allegedly attempted in vain to ban the assistant pastor, Rev. Dorcas Abreletch from serving as a priest oor even setting foot at the church any more. The development took place soon after a tension filled church service last Sunday. Speaking to Ajabu Media, on the phone, Rev. Dorcas revealed that the pastor called her for a brief meeting after Sunday service and ordered her to quit serving at the church, or even attending the church at all in the future.
The assistant pastor said that Rev. Thanji was unhappy with her stance of remaining neutral by talking and mingling with everyone in the church from both sides of the dispute, as well as attending events in the wider Kenyan community in the company of the members suing him. "Rev. Thanji asked to meet with me privately after Sunday service and invited the church Lay leader Martha Kangethe to the meeting. After a brief discussion, the pastor told me that he was unhappy that I was not denouncing the group that sued him and therefore I should stop serving as a priest or attend our church any longer," Rev. Dorcas told Ajabu Media. "I responded and told him I will not denounce anyone in the church and will continue to remain neutral and associate with everybody as the bible teaches us. I also told him I will continue attending and worshiping at church as I have done for the last 6 years but will no longer serve at the pulpit, will not wear the my priest's robes, and will sit in the pews among other worshipers going forward. He did not take that very kindly," she added. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS STORY. CHECK BACK LATER FOR DETAILS. | |||||||||
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AJABU AFRICA NEWS
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