George Pitcher writes in the Telegraph that retirement of Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester may be “emblematic of the decline of a political force in worldwide Anglicanism, which as recently as last year threatened to tear our Communion apart.”
Kathleen Parker writes: “Ahmanson certainly doesn’t believe that homosexuals should be executed, as some of his critics have suggested, but he does believe that gays should ‘come to Christ and then recover.’ ” But actually, it isn’t his critics who have said this, but Ahmanson himself.
Clergy from the Church of England are being invited to provide respite for Sri Lankan priests in the war-torn country.
Until he states clearly that powerful people in his own Communion don’t believe human activity contributes to global warming, and that he appeases these people so that they won’t split the Communion over the issue of homosexuality, he has little credibility on this matter.
The bishops of Scotland have written that they intend to abide by the request for “gracious restraint” that was made this summer by the assembled bishops of the Anglican Communion in Lambeth.
There is no mention on either the CANA or ACNA websites of the support given by the Church of Nigeria (and other Christian churches) to the proposed Nigerian Same Gender Marriage (Prohibition) Act. Do CANA and ACNA support the Church of Nigeria’s position?
We are especially concerned about those who are using large sums of money to lure our youth to see homosexuality and lesbianism as normative. – Peter Akinola
Cartoonist and blogger David Walker will be blogging the G20 Summit for The Church Times on April 2nd during the meeting in London.
In February The Lead reported that the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem was denied entry into Gaza when he and others were on their way to
Since 2003 the unilateral revisionist actions of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church Canada have torn the fabric of our common life. While the Church of Nigeria stands resolutely and uncompromisingly on the truth of the Holy Scriptures and the Lordship of Jesus Christ endless meetings and repeated communiqués have done nothing to bring restoration of our beloved communion.