According to a statement issued by Archbishop Geoffrey Smith, the Australian primate, the board's decisions were based on the 2017 findings of Australia's nationwide Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Commission's report judged that "there was a substantial failure in risk management during Bishop Herft's episcopate. This left children at risk.

TEC appealed this interpretation of the Courts 2017 collective opinions in July 2020, not on the basis of Judge Dickson's legal arguments, but only on the assertion that he had no authority to provide any interpretation. Their argument is that his only possible role was to simply enforce what they assert the Court had ruled.

The agreement was welcomed and approved at both the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church earlier this year.

After a conference to discuss and explore the churches' future relationship, Rev Prof Canon Charlotte Methuen from the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Rev Sandy Horsburgh from the Church of Scotland led the cathedral service where the Declaration was jointly signed by the Moderator and the Primus.

According to the Uganda government Newspaper, The New Vision, the award-winning priest, Gideon Byamugisha co-founded the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with and Personally Affected with HIV and AIDS in 1992. He also published a book about his struggles in 2019, 'Labours of Love', published by Wisdom Publishers.

In an interview he said that the book sold out and he appeals for sponsors to help him reprint more copies.