Anglican Essentials Canada has serious reservations about pieces of legislation - such as Bill C-38 - which threaten the civil liberties that are enjoyed by all Canadians and calls on Parliament to urgently and immediately seek out ways to protect honest expressions of the classical Christian faith. We see this as the only course of action that would uphold our fundamental freedom of conscience and religion set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Equal numbers of clergy and laity, eight out of ten, believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ but more laity than clergy believe in the Virgin Birth - 62 per cent compared with 60 per cent - and in the miracle where Jesus turned water into wine - 65 per cent compared with 61 per cent. The biggest division comes over the issue of homosexuality. One third of clergy are in favour of the ordination of practising homosexuals as priests, compared with one quarter of laity.

It had been a long, hard and hot ten days for the Archbishop, who was present and contributing at all 32 sessions. On the controversial resolution from the Anglican Peace and Justice Network on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Dr Williams firmly reiterated that this was not a call for disinvestment.

The communiqué calls upon G-8 leaders to "provide courageous and costly leadership by providing the resources and making the structural changes necessary to eradicate poverty."

Archbishop Rowan underscored the "deep convergence" of churches from North America, Europe and the Global South regarding the issue of extreme poverty. Churches of all traditions, he said, have found that they have a "common moral base resting on the bible" which calls them to act for economic justice.