"By 2010 we are talking about 50 million orphans in Sub Saharan Africa as a consequence of war, famine, droughts, and preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. We know that there are more than 800 million people living in poverty in the world ... this is not only immoral, it is a sin, it is evil."
Read more"We came very close to separation," said Southern Cone Archbishop Gregory Venables of this weekend's meeting of global Anglican leaders, "but Biblical doctrine and behavior have been affirmed as the norms in the Anglican Church," he told First Things magazine.
Read moreA team of theologians headed by the Rt. Rev. John Rodgers produced the document believing that the Anglican Communion has not been made fully aware of the archbishop's views that are at variance with the vast majority of 78-million Anglicans most of whom reside in the Global South and who eschew homosexuality.
Read more"The trip by the Anglican Archbishops does not bring economic development or social development. The group will sit down and discuss and make a statement. Several leaders from the Island have expressed regret that the Archbishops have been allowed to make the trip which has no benefit for our people. I do not understand why the archbishops are coming - they are coming to promote gay activists," said the Sheikh.
Read moreThe archbishops ripped the actions of The Episcopal Church saying that as a consequence of the decision taken by the TEC "our relationship with The Episcopal Church is either broken or severely impaired," in a news announcement on the Province of the Church of Nigeria web site.
The action of posting this announcement, on a web site, formally broke the protocol of silence surrounding the primates who have been walled off from the media amidst tight security.
Read moreLast night's meeting was presented in an upbeat tone, but it rang hollow. The Archbishop, assisted by Canon Gregory Cameron of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), referred to today's trial of TEC with some anticipation, even though both tried to be neutral and matter-of-fact.
Read moreThe dominant attitude was one of "gratitude" for the "substantially positive response of The Episcopal Church, to the Windsor Report," said Australian Archbishop Phillip Aspinall at a press briefing, and the Primates spent time discerning the best way the Windsor Report might be fully implemented throughout the communion, leading one commentator to observe that we are back in Frank Griswold's "circle dance" where togetherness is the bottom line.
Read moreThe three bishops, two conservative and one liberal had been invited by the Primates to address the state of The Episcopal Church as they see it.
Read moreThe Rev. Canon Gregory Cameron, Deputy Secretary General of the ACC, seemed to emphasize the importance of these actions for the opening portions of the Primates' Meeting today in Dar es Salaam. Indeed, following his detailed review of the background of these actions, along with the scant mention of any additional business before the Primates this week, it would appear that the Primates' Meeting was "about" the North American scene once again.
Read moreClearly the press was being misled, or else the press handlers were misled by their own handlers within this over-organized, overly scrupulous press drama. Everything about the Primates' Meeting so far smacks of big news being pre-spun through official channels. Part of the spin is that all this controversy is really nothing.
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