The ministry in the various countries of the Gulf started with expat traders and visiting seafarers, and today embraces Western executives in the oil industry, and many low-paid migrant workers, often from South Asia, engaged in the construction business or working as housemaids. After the partition of the island in 1974, getting access to the more Turkish and Muslim north has taken time. Their presence in Cyprus arose in the colonial period, largely from military chaplaincy, but relationships with the Greek Orthodox have been marked by mutual hospitality. In both parts of the diocese, Anglicans are a small minority. It is a carefully written and beautifully illustrated work, clearly a labour of love by someone who is a lay canon at the cathedral in Bahrain. Its rich diversity includes the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East, and this book tells the story of one of its three dioceses: Cyprus & the Gulf. THE Anglican Communion is no longer the Church of England writ large, but nor is it only the larger and sometimes vociferous Churches of the South.
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