Nigerian Catholic bishops in Abuja this week issued a statement congratulating the government for the passage of the law praising Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's stand as "a courageous one and a clear indication of the ability of our great country to stand shoulders high in the protection of our Nigerian and African most valued cultures of the institution of marriage and protection of the dignity of the human person."
Read moreIt was founded in 1898 as a sub-division of the former Diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa.
Tensions heightened this past week when The Church of England's House of Bishops met to discuss the findings of the Pilling Report into Human Sexuality.
The English bishops acknowledged in their communiqué, following their meeting, that they could not agree decisively to reject the report's recommendation that clergy be allowed to bless same-sex relationships.
Read moreBefore he left England for Africa, he told a television presenter that while he opposes gay marriage, he sees no contradiction in upholding and supporting civil partnerships. In one brief unshining moment culture triumphed over Scripture.
Read moreThis reporter has been travelling to Africa for more than 35 years and watched the evolution of sexuality issues as they have been pushed on Africans by Western pansexualists who have an agenda they want advanced at any cost to justify their own behavior.
Read more"As bishops of the Anglican Communion we commend and applaud the work of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and especially the second Global Anglican Future Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya. As bishops of the Church of Nigeria [Anglican Communion] we commit ourselves to the continuation of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
Read more"Evolution covers a variety of these including the ancient earth thesis, the descent with modification, the common ancestry thesis and finally that Darwinists claim that the principle mechanism driving this process of descent with modification is natural selection winnowing random genetic mutation.
"Is Darwinism incompatible with theistic religion? God has created human beings in his image. God could have caused the right mutation to arise at the right time.
Read more"Science has become equated with rationality. I call it scientific fundamentalism. Atheistic scientists say there is only one viewpoint allowed. Why do scientists say we must choose? It is not easy to say science is completely objective. Scientists should be humble. What do we mean by explanation? Nobody knows what energy or gravity is. Those laws do not explain what gravity is.
Read moreThe Presiding Bishop spoke at the Diocese of Louisiana's "Seeking Christ in all People: A Service of Commitment to Racial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation" on Martin Luther King Weekend. "Instead of reconciling us one to another in the unity of Christ's forgiveness for all, her hostility fostered more racial division. We suspect that she doesn't really want reconciliation.
Read more4. $50 can provide a nutritious meal for a child for a year. $5 million would feed 100,000 children for one year.
5. $200 can provide an education for a child including provision of buildings and teachers' salaries etc. for a year. For $5 million you can equip 25,000 children.
Read moreThe Anglican Church of Canada: Global Rank: 557,249. Rank in Canada 21,989. NOTE: This is all communications in the ACoC, not just its media communications.
Church Times: Global Rank: 699,016. Rank in the UK: 63,116
Anglican Communion: Global Rank: 1,160,897
SFIF: 1,212,640 (worldwide). No US ranking given - too small
T19: 1,269, 742 (worldwide). No US ranking given - too small
Archbishop of Canterbury: 1,354,197. Rank in the UK: 56,853
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