Year: 2007

The biggest news from the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa is the election of a theological moderate, the Most Rev. Ian Ernest, Archbishop of the Province of the Indian Ocean, to succeed the decidedly un-moderate Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria. The Primates also released two statements, one on Africa, which includes the names of provinces represented at the meeting, and one on the crisis in the Anglican Communion, which, curiously, has appeared thus far only on the Web sites of conservative North Americans.

The Primate of Uganda, Henry Orombi, has spoken out on the reasons that he chose not to attend the Joint Standing Committee’s meeting with the

The Archbishop of Wales, a member of the Joint Standing Committee whose membership recently met with the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops, shares his thoughts about what happened in New Orleans and of the findings of the JSC in their report.

DAY ONE of the meeting of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA). The council focused on the continent’s problems – poverty, disease and injustice. The topic of homosexuality was avoided.