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 ...

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.

Archbishop Peter J. Akinola, the leader of traditionalist forces in the Nigerian church, said its constitution had been rewritten this month in order to give its officials the freedom to break ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

African archbishops are watching closely, said Alfred Wasike in Uganda’s New Vision.The resistance to the Episcopalians is being spearheaded by Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola. He refused to ...

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 ...