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ABC Announces New Anglican Structure to Deal with Anglican Woes...Tensions Rise

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:10:00 -0400

Pharisaism haunts the churches of the West ... It ruins true religion, for reality is an indispensable condition of God's blessing. We must be more honest before God, more open with each other and more real in ourselves if we are to expect God to use us. --- From Foreword to "John Sung", by Leslie T. Lyall (London: China Inland Mission.

True freedom is not freedom from all responsibility to God and man in order to live for myself, but the exact opposite. True freedom is freedom from myself and from the cramping tyranny of my own self-centredness, in order to live in love for God and others. Only in such self-giving love is an authentically free and human existence to be found. --- From 'Obeying Christ in a Changing World', Vol. 1: "The Lord Christ", ed. and with a general introduction by John Stott.

The vocabulary of 'self'. That self-centeredness is a worldwide phenomenon of human experience is evident from the rich variety of words in our language which are compounded with 'self'. There are more than fifty which have a pejorative meaning - words like self-applause, self-absorption, self-assertion, self-advertisement, self-indulgence, self-gratification, self-glorification, self-pity, self-importance, self-interest and self-will. --- From "The Contemporary Christian" (London and Downers Grove: IVP, 1992), p. 50.

LAMBETH: Episcopal bishops given talking points

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:20:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Episcopal bishops given talking points

By Hans Zeiger in Canterbury
www.virtueonline.org
July 25, 2008

CANTERBURY-The Office of the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church distributed a list of media talking points to American bishops prior to the Lambeth Conference. The Rt. Rev. F. Clayton Matthews, Bishop of the Office of Pastoral Development, sent two "sample narratives" along with a "Messaging Strategy" to "Bishops Attending the Lambeth Conference" in June.

The "Messaging Strategy," prepared by Auburn Media, encourages people who speak to the press to use "a structure of three ideas that illustrate and underscore a single core message."

LAMBETH: Windsor Continuation Group - Preliminary Observations Part Two

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:20:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Windsor Continuation Group - Preliminary Observations Part Two

A Presentation at the Lambeth Conference

July 25th, 2008

2. Where we would like to be: Towards a Way Forward

If we are to survive as an international family of Churches, then the Windsor Report's suggestion of a shift of emphasis to 'autonomy-in-communion' might yet require a further step to ' communion with autonomy and accountability' cf. recommendations in the Virginia Report of the International Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission and the Windsor Report. The covenant process is intended to bring the Communion to a point where its understanding of Communion is renewed and deepened. There are a number of fundamental questions which need to be answered.

Archbishop of Canterbury Seeks Lambeth Compliant Partners from Global South

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:50:00 -0400

CANTERBURY: Archbishop of Canterbury Seeks Lambeth Compliant Partners from Global South

News Analysis

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
7/25/2008

A rival Global South movement is being set up here in Canterbury in an attempt to divide and conquer the Global South movement by encouraging a Lambeth compliant "Communion Partners" movement in an effort to isolate mainstream evangelical and Anglo-Catholics who number 40 million of the 55 million church-going Anglicans throughout the world.

LAMBETH: Transgender Episcopal Priest Speaks out at Canterbury

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Transgender Episcopal Priest Speaks out at Canterbury
First sex-change TEC priest to come out of the closet

By Hans Zeiger
www.virtueonline.org
July 25, 2008

CANTERBURY-The Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge, a transgender Episcopal priest from the Diocese of Massachusetts, spoke Friday at a Lambeth Conference "fringe" event along with four other transgender people. A former female with a PhD from Harvard in early Christian thought and sex and gender, Partridge transitioned to maleness about six years ago. He has served part-time as priest at St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Allston, Massachusetts since June 2006.

Partridge, who has a gay partner, said that the current debate in the Anglican Communion about homosexual inclusion is difficult for transgender Anglicans. "We feel it's implicitly about us," he said, adding his reservations about the oversimplified sex and gender categories in which the debate is carried on. "It may be overwhelming to add us into this ... I think there's a lot more complexity and richness that we haven't yet recognized. If adding trans into the debate helps us to recognize complexity, I actually think that will be a good thing."

LAMBETH: Statement of the Sudenese Bishops on the Situation in Sudan

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Statement of the Sudenese Bishops on the Situation in Sudan

Presented by the Most Revd Dr Daniel Deng Bul,
Archbishop and Primate of the Sudan
July 23, 2008

Your Grace, the Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
Your Graces, the Archbishops of our beloved Anglican Communion,
Your Lordships,
the Bishops of the Anglican Communion and the clergy,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

We greet you all in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Anglican agonies

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:00:00 -0400

Anglican agonies

COMMENTARY

By Bill Murchison
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/24/anglican-agonies/
July 24, 2008

History's humongous wheel turns and turns and turns again. Over time, mud and sludge accumulate on even the sprucest institutions. Take the 500-year-old Anglican family of churches, Christianity's third-largest, after Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy.

With Anglicanism's biggest family event under way - the every-10-years gathering of bishops and archbishops in England - what the world sees, accurately or not, is a family in moral and spiritual disarray.

TEC's Theological Agenda & TEC's Strategy for the Lambeth Conference of Bishops

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:50:00 -0400

TEC's Theological Agenda and TEC's Strategy for the Lambeth Conference of Bishops

Commentary

by Rev. Dr. Philip Turner
Anglican Communion Institute
http://anglicancommunioninstitute.com/content/view/155/1/
July 21, 2008

Shortly before the opening of the Lambeth Conference (now in progress) the Rt. Rev. Clayton Matthews of the office of TEC's Presiding Bishops circulated a memo to all TEC bishops planning to attend. The memo is entitled "Lambeth Talking Points" and is intended to guide and shape the comments of TEC's bishops in their discussions with other bishops from other parts of the Anglican Communion. The memo is revealing for several reasons.

Bishop accuses church of manipulating summit over 'tolerance guide' to gay clerg

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:40:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Bishop accuses church of manipulating summit over 'tolerance guide' to gay clergy

By Riazat Butt,
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
July 25, 2008

A US bishop yesterday accused his own church of manipulating the Lambeth summit by providing its 125 representatives with briefing notes explaining how to promote liberal attitudes towards gay clergy.

The US Episcopal church has the largest presence at Lambeth, a once-a-decade gathering of the world's Anglican bishops in Canterbury, and has provided each prelate with a "messaging strategy" that tells them how to present a cogent, persuasive argument in favour of diversity and tolerance in their discussions with other bishops.

LAMBETH: Episcopal Bishop says Cancel Episcopal Convention-for UN goals

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:20:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Episcopal Bishop says Cancel Episcopal Convention-for UN goals

By Hans Zeiger in Canterbury
www.virtueonline.org
July 24, 2008

CANTERBURY-A leading orthodox bishop of The Episcopal Church has proposed canceling the 2009 Episcopal Church General Convention in order to fund the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Following the Thursday march on London by over 600 Anglican bishops and their spouses in support of the MDGs, the Rt. Rev. Keith Ackerman, Bishop of Quincy, said that "there should be no General Convention this year, and all the money for the convention should be sent to fund the goals."

Conscience and logic: 'Why I'm not going to Lambeth'

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:50:00 -0400

Conscience and logic: 'Why I'm not going to Lambeth'
Exclusive interview with Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

By Jenny Taylor
www.Lapido Media.com
7/24/2008

Rumours that The Bishop OF ROCHESTER Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, was attending some of the seminars at the Lambeth Conference were skotched today when he confirmed he was 'on retreat'.

One of just two bishops in the Church of England to boycott the Lambeth Conference entirely, he insisted to Lapido Media that he is being true to biblical authority.

Explaining a decision that he admits has been painful for a man who sought refuge in Britain from persecution, and who has been at the heart of the two previous Lambeth Conferences first as Coordinator in 1988 and then as a Member of the Steering Committee in 1998 - he said it was a matter of 'conscience and logic'.

Common Cause Partnership Welcomes Jerusalem Declaration

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:00:00 -0400

Common Cause Partnership Welcomes Jerusalem Declaration

http://www.acn-us.org/archive/2008/07/welcomes-jerusalem-declaration.html
7/24/2008

The Common Cause Partnership leaders issued a statement today welcoming the Jerusalem Declaration and the statement on the Global Anglican Future and pledging to move forward with the work of Anglican unity in North America.

We, as the Bishops and elected leaders of the Common Cause Partnership (CCP) are deeply grateful for the Jerusalem Declaration. It describes a hopeful, global Anglican future, rooted in scripture and the authentic Anglican way of faith and practice. We joyfully welcome the words of the GAFCON statement that it is now time 'for the federation currently known as the Common Cause Partnership to be recognized by the Primates Council.'

PENNSYLVANIA: Supreme Court Rules 'Hate Crimes' Law Violates PA Constitution

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:30:00 -0400

PENNSYLVANIA: Supreme Court Rules that Homosexual 'Hate Crimes' Law Used Against Christian Evangelists Violates Pennsylvania Constitution

WASHINGTON, July 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and attorneys with the Foundation for Moral Law applauded the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for its ruling yesterday in Marcavage v. Rendell affirming that the state legislature violated the Pennsylvania Constitution when it added "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to Pennsylvania's "ethnic intimidation" law (18 Pa. C.S. § 2710) in 2002.

The Foundation, along with attorney Aaron D. Martin, represented Christian evangelists Michael Marcavage, Mark Diener, Randall and Linda Beckman, Susan Startzell, Arlene Elshinnawy, and Nancy Major, who in 2004 were arrested and charged under the "ethnic intimidation" law for evangelizing at a Philadelphia homosexual parade. The Christian evangelists sued and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania agreed that the law was unconstitutional and struck it down. On appeal the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in a short per curiam order, agreed with the Commonwealth Court's opinion and the Christian evangelists' appellate brief filed by the Foundation.

Lambeth II: Why many bishops did not come - Chris Sugden

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:40:00 -0400

Lambeth II: Why many bishops did not come

By Chris Sugden
Herald Tribune
July 24th, 2008

In his opening sermon at the Lambeth Conference, the bishop of Colombo, the Right Reverend Duleep de Chickera, insisted that the Anglican tradition was to welcome everybody. It is, he said, "an inclusive communion, where there is space equally for everyone and anyone, regardless of color, gender, ability, sexual orientation. Unity in diversity is a cherished Anglican tradition."

Given this shared tradition, why did some 230 of the Communion's 800 plus bishops choose not to come? Because they hold that - above anything else - the unifying, formal commitment of the Anglican Church is to Scripture and its teaching, and that those who are endorsing blessing same-sex relationships and consecrating active gay men as bishops are innovators who are setting the teaching of the Bible aside. For these 230 bishops this is a matter of conscience - obedience to the Bible and the continuous teaching of the Church.

LAMBETH: Bishops March on London for UN goals

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:40:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Bishops March on London for UN goals

By Hans Zeiger in Canterbury
www.virtueonline.org
July 24, 2008

LONDON-Over 600 Anglican bishops and spouses marched through the streets of London on Thursday to demonstrate their support for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Clad in violet robes and toting signs that read "Halve Poverty By 2015," the bishops chatted amongst each other as they walked from Whitehall past Parliament and Westminster Abbey and over the Lambeth Bridge to Lambeth Palace. There they listened to speeches by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, moving on from there to Buckingham Palace for a meeting with the Queen.

LAMBETH: Ousted Ugandan Bishop at Pro-Gay Event

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:00:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Ousted Ugandan Bishop at Pro-Gay Event

By Hans Zeiger in Canterbury
www.virtueonline.org
July 23, 2008

CANTERBURY-The Rt. Rev. Christopher Ssenyonjo, ousted as a bishop by the Church of the Province of Uganda because of his pro-gay activism, was among the panelists at a Lambeth Conference "fringe" event Wednesday to encourage gay inclusion. The event included the preview screening of a new documentary film called Voices of Witness, about homosexual Christians in Africa. Ssenyonjo was interviewed in the film, and after the screening he offered his reflections alongside three other African pro-gay activists.

Though Ugandan bishops were invited to Lambeth by the Archbishop of Canterbury and are boycotting the conference, Ssenyonjo, the former Bishop of West Buganda, was not officially invited and came anyway. He is in Canterbury at the invitation and expense of Integrity USA, the homosexual pressure group that sponsored the screening and panel discussion at the University of Kent.

UK: Church of Ireland Bishop warns of sense of uncertainty among Anglicans

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400

UK: Church of Ireland Bishop warns of sense of uncertainty among Anglicans

by PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent, in Canterbury
The Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/0723/1216740956864.html
July 23, 2008

THERE IS "a palpable sense of uncertainty about where it is all going" and "a lack of trust under the surface", the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Dromore Right Rev Harold Miller said about the Lambeth Conference yesterday. He also warned that "if there is not a proper place for debate, then that will be exceptionally dangerous for the Anglican Communion".

LAMBETH: David's Diary - From My Ear to Yours (2)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:20:00 -0400

LAMBETH: David's Diary - From My Ear to Yours (2)

By David W. Virtue in Canterbury
www.virtueonline.org
7/23/2008

The Anglican Communion is hanging by a thread. We are into the 7^th day of Lambeth, but only the 4^th day in terms of real Indaba talk. Already there are signs of fragmentation everywhere one turns.

Gene Robinson is roaming the campus with a body guard and press officer, the darling of the liberal media, offering his thoughts on exclusion and his personal pain at not being admitted to the Lambeth conference.

MISSION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EVANGELISATION - Cardinal Dias

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:50:00 -0400

MISSION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EVANGELISATION

by Cardinal Ivan Dias
7/21/2008

The cardinal gave this address to the bishops of the Lambeth Conference on 7/22/2008 at the University of Kent.

"This is indeed the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it" (Ps 118:24). At the very outset, I want to thank His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury for his kind invitation to address this august Conference. I sincerely appreciate your warm welcome, which echoes the words of the psalmist: "How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" (Ps 133:1).

CHRIST'S MANDATE TO EVANGELISE

LAMBETH: Rome warns Canterbury of "Spiritual Alzheimers"

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:20:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Rome warns Canterbury of "Spiritual Alzheimers"

By Hans Zeiger in Canterbury
www.virtueonline.org
July 23, 2008

CANTERBURY-In a plenary address to Anglican bishops gathered at the decennial Lambeth Conference Tuesday evening, Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, warned that "when we live myopically in the fleeting present, oblivious of our past heritage and apostolic traditions, we could well be suffering from spiritual Alzheimer's." Cardinal Dias also reminded Anglicans of the exclusivity of the Christian faith, saying that relativism "is contrary to the permanent tenets of the Gospel."

Cardinal Dias was invited to speak at Lambeth as part of the conference's focus on evangelism and ecumenical dialogue. His appearance follows the 2007 agreement of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission that the two churches share a common mission. Cardinal Dias called for "a unity which binds [the churches] together in the apostolic faith."

LAMBETH:American Bishops Furious Over Robinson Exclusion from Lambeth Conference

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:50:00 -0400

LAMBETH: American Bishops Furious Over Robinson Exclusion from Lambeth Conference
Central Florida Bishop Blasts Indaba Groups as "asinine"

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
7/23/2008

There is a growing concerted effort by American bishops to find a way to bring Gene Robinson, the homosexual Bishop of New Hampshire, into the Big Tent. America's liberal bishops are furious at the exclusion of Robinson from the Lambeth Conference. On the first full day of the Lambeth Conference, they spent most of their time trying to figure out how to get Robinson in the door.

LAMBETH: Windsor Group Chairman Says Communion Situation is Deteriorating

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:00:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Windsor Continuation Group Chairman Says Communion Situation is Rapidly Deteriorating

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
7/22/2008

Saying that the situation in The Anglican Communion is "severe" and that positions and arguments are becoming "more extreme with relationships in the Communion continuing to deteriorate", the chairman of the Windsor Continuation Group told a press conference that there is little sense of mutual accountability and a fear that vital issues are not being addressed in the most timely and effective manner.

The Rt. Rev. Clive Handford, former President /Bishop of the/ Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and Middle East, painted a grim picture of deteriorating relationships in the Anglican Communion saying the gap between promise and follow through seems unbridgeable.

LAMBETH: Archbishop of Sudan to TEC Bishop Gene Robinson - "Resign"

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:10:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Archbishop of Sudan to TEC Bishop Gene Robinson - "Resign"

By Hans Zeiger with David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 22, 2008

CANTERBURY-The Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan today declared that Gene Robinson, the openly gay Bishop of New Hampshire, "should resign for the sake of the church." In a press conference at the decennial Lambeth Conference, the Most Rev. Dr. Daniel Deng Bul said that homosexual ordination "is not what is found in the Bible" and that it is "not the norm of the Anglican world."

Archbishop Bul, who serves as Bishop of Juba as well as primate of the church in Sudan, represents some of the most persecuted Christian minorities in the world. The Episcopal Church of Sudan has grown from eleven dioceses, fifteen years ago, to twenty-four dioceses today. Dr. Bul rose to the archbishopric at the end of 2007.

LAMBETH: ABC responds to queries concerning effectiveness of the "Indaba Groups"

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:20:00 -0400

LAMBETH: ABC responds to queries concerning effectiveness of the "Indaba Groups"

By Jason S. Patterson
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
7/22/2008

A new strategy for this year's Lambeth Conference entails the daily morning gathering of all the bishops in what has been named an Indaba Group. The appearance of these groups on the Lambeth schedule is the brainchild of Lambeth Conference Design Group member Archbishop Makgoba (of Cape Town). In the booklet entitled "Worship and Indaba Group Resources", published by the Lambeth Conference, the word Indaba is defined as "a Zulu word for a gathering for purposeful discussion. It is both a process and a method.

LAMBETH: Archbishop of Canterbury: Traditionalists 'alienated' by women bishops

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:50:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams: Traditionalists 'alienated' by women bishops

The decision to press ahead with the introduction of women bishops has left many in the Church of England feeling "alienated and grieved", the Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted.

By Martin Beckford Religious Affairs Correspondent
The Telegraph
http://tinyurl.com/6ek5tw
July 22, 2008

In his first public comments on the contentious decision by the church's governing body to introduce female bishops without compromise measures that would have satisfied traditionalists, Dr Rowan Williams said it had resulted in a "huge amount of unfinished business".

CANTERBURY: Lambeth Conference is Heavily in Debt. Crisis Looms

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:40:00 -0400

CANTERBURY: Lambeth Conference is Heavily in Debt. Crisis Looms

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
7/22/2008

It's official. The Lambeth Conference is deeply in debt with a financial shortfall approaching $4 million dollars. Church officials are scrambling to find the money.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the English bishops are ultimately accountable for finding the money. As of today, they don't have it. Media spokesperson Archbishop Philip Aspinall said a check for $100,000 had been received, but this is only the tip of what is needed if Anglican leaders want to hold off Bailiffs from Kent University appearing at their door looking for full payment.

Costs to bring the 600 bishops here from the four corners of the globe total $8.8 million plus travel costs. The Spouses conference is $2.4 million plus travel costs. There are 600 bursaries at $7,000 per head and more than half the money has yet to be raised to cover the full costs.

VANCOUVER: Christian Theologian Dr. James Packer Speaks Out on Homosexuality

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:10:00 -0400

VANCOUVER: Prominent Christian Theologian Dr. James Packer Speaks Out on Homosexuality

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
LifeSiteNews.com
July 21, 2008

Dr. James Innell Packer, a noted Canadian theologian, author and a Board of Governors Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, as well as an executive editor of Christianity Today, recently addressed the contentious problem of homosexuality and same-sex unions in the Anglican church.

The Anglican Church has come to a cross-roads because of the issue of same-sex "marriage," with a massive split in the Global Communion looking increasingly inevitable.

LAMBETH: Williams Offers Ambiguous Response to Sexuality Question

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:40:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Williams Offers Ambiguous Response to Sexuality Question

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
7/21/2008

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams offered an ambiguous response to a direct question posed to him about sexual behavior saying that sexual sin is defined as "any relationship outside a public covenant of mutual support and love in the presence of God," seeming to endorse committed same sex arrangements. Williams then followed his first statement saying."Sex outside marriage is not as God purposes it."

VirtueOnline posed this question to the ABC, "What counts for you as wrong in sexual behavior," at a press conference today, Williams added that the "Anglican Communion has made its position clear. That is where I stand and the discipline I am committed to." By "public covenant", is Williams supporting gay marriages?

While his commitment to the 1998 Lambeth resolution 1:10 is clear, it appears in his answer that he is giving solace to those homosexuals in committed same-sex unions in the Western Anglican Church. He did not publicly condemn homosexual behavior and he is on record publicly affirming his openness to homosexual partnerships in his booklet, "The Body's Grace."

RWANDA: Archbishop Kolini speaks out on Lambeth conference

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:10:00 -0400

RWANDA: Archbishop Kolini speaks out on Lambeth conference

BY JAMES TASAMBA AND GRACE MUGABE
New Times
http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13598&article=8043
July 21st, 2008

NYARUGENGE - The Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, Emmanuel Kolini, has spoken out on their refusal to attend the Lambeth Conference, saying that they cannot sit to deliberate on wicked issues.

The Archbishop claimed that it was not a boycott since they had declined the invitation. He said that their stand was based on strong Biblical views yet Canterbury had ignored the Bible's teaching on homosexuality.

LAMBETH: Sudanese Episcopal Church Rejects Homosexual Practice

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:00:00 -0400

LAMBETH: Sudanese Episcopal Church Rejects Homosexual Practice
Africans Oppose Episcopal Church for Consecrating a Practicing Homosexual - Condemn Court Actions

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
7/21/2008

The Archbishop and Primate of the Province of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan has issued a statement at the Lambeth Conference condemning homosexual practice as contrary to biblical teaching and saying the consecration of an openly homosexual American bishop has caused divisions within the Anglican Communion and harmed the Church's witness in Africa.