It was the first rude awakening for the young African Christian when police at the airport confiscated his Bible and Prayer Book. Tolerance for his religious beliefs he quickly learned were nil in this strictly Muslim country.

The bishop's wife and their six children had their home broken into back in February by a gang of people looking for the bishop who had been preaching so vigorously about Jesus and the gospel that she grew afraid for his life. "The bishop was out of town at the time. He was booked for a wedding and could not return," she said.

Not surprisingly, the most outspoken of the reports came from the Archbishop of NIGERIA, the Most Rev. Peter Akinola, who reiterated his view that homosexuality should be seen as "an acquired aberration". To argue that it is "a God-given urge and inclination is “a blatant lie against Almighty God”, he said.

Like the former Presiding Bishop, Frank Griswold, Bruno also blames the Internet in part for the divisions in the Episcopal Church. At Mrs. Schori's consecration, he said: "The sad fact is that the Internet primarily 'jacks' people up, gets them upset." It hasn't occurred to him that it is precisely the Internet (read VOL) that won't, any longer, allow him to get away with lies, spin and false teachings.