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March 02 2004
AUSTRALIA: Primate stirs strife among fellow Anglicans
In his new book, Dr. Carnley takes issue with the prominence that
evangelicals give to the doctrine of the atonement.
March 02 2004
WASHINGTON DC: Episcopal Pastor Rebukes Diocese
A draft of the one-page statement, which was presented Saturday to members at Calvary Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, declares that "Holy Scripture does not support giving God's blessing to a sexual relationship outside marriage, be that relationship homosexual or heterosexual" and that "councils of the Episcopal Church have, and sometimes will, err."
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March 02 2004
CENTRAL AFRICA: Relationship fractured, Communion Impaired with ECUSA
With profound sadness the Church of the Province of Central Africa declares that the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) has inflicted a desperately grave wound to us and the Communion.
By official and willful action, sixty two bishops approved the election of an openly active homosexual as a bishop. Many participated in his consecration.
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March 02 2004
ALABAMA: Diocese rejects Gay Bishop. Reduces funds to national church
By passing a resolution "affirming our Anglican tradition and communion," priests and church members representing 36,000 Episcopalians in the state said that "blessings of same-sex unions and ordinations of non-celibate unmarried persons are not part of the common life of this diocese."
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March 01 2004
CANADA: Fifth Anglican Primate joins alliance of International Archbishops
The diocese's unilateral, divisive and unprecedented move, taken in 2002, was denounced throughout the Anglican Communion as contrary to Scripture, Christian tradition over 2000 years and the clear wishes of the Bishops of the Anglican Communion.
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March 01 2004
CENTRAL FLORIDA: Bishop Howe reports on Church of the New Covenant
On January 18, 2004, the Rector and Vestry of New Covenant unanimously passed two resolutions, which the Rector and some of the Vestry's representatives discussed with our Chancellor and me on February 5, 2004.
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March 01 2004
NIGERIA: Primate to snub Williams over gay bishop
The Archbishop, who heads 17 million Anglicans, is a leading opponent of
the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Frank Griswold, who
defied colleagues by leading the consecration, last November, of Canon Gene
Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.
March 01 2004
KENTUCKY: Local parish is snubbing its bishop
The congregation, with an average attendance of about 110 people, has contemporary worship services -- no pews, prayer books or pipe organs. But it adheres to traditional scriptural interpretations, and is in "impaired communion" with the diocese, said its minister, the Rev. Martin Gornik.
The Lexington parish is the second parish to publicly challenge Sauls. Saint John's Church in Versailles split in January after diocesan leaders dismissed that church's governing board.
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March 01 2004
ENGLAND: Year of Hope and Pain for Archbishop
In an exclusive interview with the Press Association to mark the first anniversary of his enthronement, Dr Williams said he missed Wales, where he was formerly Archbishop, and still thought of it as home. He added that in spite of the pressures of his job and a number of pastoral visits abroad this year, he has managed to publish two books and a collection of essays and still keeps up when he can with his favourite cartoon series The Simpsons.
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February 29 2004
CENTRAL AFRICA: Separation with US Episcopal Church inevitable
The separation would become permanent if there is no repentance by the
Anglican Church in America.
This follows last year's ordination in the New Hemisphere, United States,
of an active homosexual as a bishop.
Archbishop Bernard Malango of Malawi said after the meeting held at the
Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Gaborone on Wednesday that the ordination
"has inflicted a desperately grave wound to the church and the communion".
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