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Awkward as it may be for an outsider to intrude in the doings of a country or a church that is not his own, I nonetheless believe that the Most Rev. Archbishop Peter Akinola has some explaining to do.
NEW YORK -- The most influential Anglican leader in Africa -- home to nearly half the world's Anglicans -- said Thursday that the U.S. Episcopal Church has created a "new religion" by confirming a ...
Jim Naughton, an outspoken canon with the liberal Episcopalian Diocese of Washington, D.C., had been predicting a GAFcon meltdown for months. He feels that Akinola began losing influence at last ...
If you ask Christians to locate the spiritual center of their faith on a map, Anglicans might point to Canterbury, Catholics to Rome and the Orthodox to Istanbul.
The spokesman for bishops who claim the leadership of a majority of the world's Anglican Christians denounced the gay rights policies of the Episcopal Church in the United States yesterday, after ...
An African archbishop's defiant intervention in the U.S. Episcopal Church has sent new shock waves through a global Anglican church already badly divided and facing possible schism over gay issues.
Homosexuality and women ordination tops agenda. Bishops of the Anglican Communion in Africa will be meeting here tomorrow with the critical issues of homosexuality and ordination of women as ...
Anglican leaders moved closer Monday to a permanent break with the U.S. Episcopal Church over its first openly gay bishop, but the anticipated split within the U.S. denomination will evolve more ...
The Rev. Felix Anyasor was a happy man this week. So was his friend and colleague the Rev. Simon Omoke. The Nigerian-born Houston ministers had just returned from Virginia, where they celebrated ...
LONDON (AP) -- A group of overseas Anglican leaders said Monday they have loosened ties with the U.S. Episcopal Church over the consecration of its first openly gay bishop, but ...
In both 2006 and 2007, Time magazine counted Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola as one of “the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming our world.” ...
ABUJA, NIGERIA - The head of the 17.5 million-member Anglican Church of Nigeria has denounced the Church of England's new policy on partnerships for gay clergy and laity, and wants world ...