The Anglican Church of Canada is, to our knowledge, the first province of the Anglican Communion to express its opposition to draconian anti-gay law under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament. The provincial secretary of the Church of Uganda has expressed support for the legislation, while suggesting that executing people for having sex was perhaps going a bit far.
Sexual minorities in Africa have become collateral damage to our domestic conflicts and culture wars as U.S. conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay pastors and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans in their American fight, a groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA) discovered.
“Apart from being an intrusion at the very highest levels of one major church into the internal affairs of another, under the guise of being ecumenical, this invitation offers very little that is new,” Bishop Don Harvey, moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada, told the group’s annual synod Thursday morning. Harvey said the Pope’s invitation was neither helpful nor welcome.
Prayers and donations are desperately needed by the people of El Salvador. The Rev. Lee Alison Crawford, Canon Missioner of the Anglican Episcopal Church of
The new Bishop of Stockholm and common Anglican courtesy The Rt. Rev. David Hamid, bishop suffragan of the Church of England Diocese in Europe, blogs
The Monitor is conducting an online poll asking readers, “Some rights activists say the Anti-Homosexuality Bill violates human rights. Should it be passed?” At present of 1996 votes cast, 55.6% voted yes. You can participate.
Bishop Barahona considers Ida “the worst natural event of the year to strike El Salvador. It intensifies the social and economic problems with which we live. We pray to God for the life of our families, communities and countries.
Forty or so people from all over the Anglican Communion recently met in Hong Kong to plan a coordinated response to the scandalous practice of human trafficking. The most common form involves forcing children and women into the sex trade, but its rising tide now includes forced labor and organ harvest.
The Church of Uganda has said that they are studying the proposed legislation before their country’s legislature and therefore will take no position on it right now.
Pat Ashworth summarizes the response of Anglican groups and others to the proposed anti-gay legislation now being proposed in Uganda, noting that in 2007 the