Category: The Lead

The Rwandan House of Bishops has elected three new bishops to serve in its Anglican Misssion in America. Read the communiqu&eacute here. George Conger observes,

“The actions of the Episcopal Church have created a situation in which some Anglicans in the United States and throughout most of the Provinces of the Communion are convinced that the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is clear in its teaching and must take precedent over culture. Holding fast to this belief, they cannot accommodate those who believe the contrary,” stated Gomez. chair of The Covenant Design Group appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

“Homosexuality and lesbianism are inhuman. Those who practice them are insane, satanic and are not fit to live because they are rebels to God’s purpose for man,” Rt. Rev. Isaac Orama, Anglican Bishop of Uyo in the Church of Nigeria, recently told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

The subject of Sunday’s sermon at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church in Nairobi was repentance, and the preacher found an obvious example of the sinfulness of contemporary culture within the branch of his own denomination an ocean away in the United States. An usher warned that the reporter could be assaulted if he asked worshipers about inclusion of homosexuals, and said that America’s had led to 9/11.