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CAIRO: Egyptian Anglican Archbishop Refuses Good Friday Offering from the Episcopal Church
By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
February 26 2016
The Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Egypt, the Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, says he does not receive funds or grants from the Good Friday offering of the Episcopal Church (TEC) because of that Church's decision to consecrate as bishop a divorced man living in a homosexual relationship.
The Good Friday Offering is a decades' old tradition of The Episcopal Church and is done to express solidarity with the members of the four dioceses of the Province of Jerusalem and Middle East.
In a statement from his diocese, the evangelical Anglican primate said the decision not to receive money from TEC is one expression of the reality that the Diocese of Egypt, with North Africa and the Horn of Africa, was (and still is) in an impaired relationship with the Episcopal Church.
One of our clergy in Ethiopia states our situation in graphic terms: "We'd rather starve and not receive money from churches whose actions contradict the scriptures," Archbishop Anis wrote.
