At the meeting the laity insisted that the elections would not go ahead and that the synodically agreed Provincial Court was the correct procedure. The archdeacons were publicly asked why they had connived with Bishop Chama to support calls for a new election, to which their response was “we have been threated by Bishop Chama that if we do not agree we will lose our jobs”.
Videos of the Lambeth 2008 opening press conference are now on youtube. The purpose of the Lambeth Conference 2008 is to enable the Bishops of the Anglican Communion to discern and share more deeply their Anglican identity, and to become even better equipped for their Christ-given task of being leaders in God’s mission.
The Rev’d Canon Dr Chris Sugden responded by saying that this conference was not about homosexuality.
The Rev’d Canon Hosam replied by reminding Archbishop Akinola that he had referred to the split of the Anglican Communion in 2003.
Archbishop Akinola refrained from answering.
Updated Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written to Canadian Primate Archbishop Fred Hiltz to say that he “cannot support or sanction” foreign interventions in
Seventy percent of the world’s Anglican bishops have registered for the Lambeth Conference with more on the way. This is a signal, says Rowan Williams,
The Right Rev. Musonda Trevor Mwamba of Botswana, spoke to the convention of the Diocese of North Carolina Saturday, and he wondered out loud “When
I think it’s time to admit that the tradition of liberal Anglicanism is finished. Those Anglicans who carry on calling for an “inclusive church” are relics of a previous era. They should face the fact that the religious landscape has changed utterly. For the first time this church has defined itself in opposition to liberalism, taking a decisively reactionary stance on a crucial moral issue.
Basically the Anglican spirit aches for unity and I don’t think there are going to be many people who are going to be in a rush to run away from the See of Canterbury. – George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, in an interview with the Houston Chronicle earlier this week.
The Lambeth Conference is underway with the first event to be held next week. The media received the following invitation for January 21. Official Launch
“The Archbishop of Canterbury condemns unequivocally the use of state machinery to intimidate opponents of the deposed bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, and is appalled by recent reports of Zimbabwean police forcibly stopping Sunday services in several churches in Harare where clergy have publicly and bravely refused to acknowledge Kunonga’s Episcopal authority. Kunonga’s position has become increasingly untenable within the Anglican Church over the last year, as he has consistently refused to maintain appropriate levels of independence from the Zimbabwean Government.”