AMiA also announced that Cynthia P. Brust will join the AMiA staff as Director of Communications. She will be responsible for articulating the message and vision of AMiA for external and internal audiences, both domestic and international, as well as all aspects of strategic communications, including publications, educational resource materials, website and media relations. In addition, she will provide consultative services for field staff, networks and congregations.

"I was entering my final year at Trinity Seminary in the fall of 2004 and my wife Kristin and I were planting a church in Boston," said Drake, aged 37. "While attending a conference in Thailand in September of that year, I met a man from Raleigh who challenged me out of the blue, 'So when are you going to move to Raleigh and help plant a church?' At the time I thought he was crazy.

The report encourages churches to provide pastoral counsel to victims of domestic abuse and to provide information about relevant agencies and support services to those in need.

"Domestic abuse in all its forms is contrary to the will of God and an affront to human dignity," reads the forward co-signed by Williams. "All need to play their part in preventing or halting it."

The concerns were raised at the Global South summit in Rwanda earlier this month, though no direct reference was included in their final statement. However, in a fresh blow to hopes for unity, sources said a number of archbishops may refuse to attend the Lambeth Conference, the 10-yearly summit of bishops held in Canterbury.