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May 07 2006
AAC and ACN Leaders Comment on Andrus Election to California Diocese
Three of the episcopal candidates for bishop in California are living lives in open contradiction to Christian teaching on sexuality, and all of the individuals espouse contradictory teaching. The Diocese of California has demonstrated no intention to comply with Lambeth 1.10, the Windsor Report 2004, or the Primates' 2005 Communiqué.
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May 07 2006
CALIFORNIA: Episcopal Diocese Elects New Bishop
The vote was closely watched by Episcopalians across the nation and their fellow Anglicans worldwide, who have been struggling to remain unified despite deep differences over gay clergy.
The 77 million-member Anglican Communion, represented in the United States by the Episcopal Church, is still reeling from the 2003 election of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop - V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
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May 05 2006
NEW YORK: Letter to Abbas, Bush, Olmert urges immediate action for peace
May 2, 2006
Dear President Bush, President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert,
We write to you as leaders of churches and church-related organizations from the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant traditions that work together in Churches for Middle East Peace.
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May 05 2006
NORTH FLORIDA: Panel of Reference will hear Redeemer Anglican Church
Wednesday, 26 April 2006
Dear Gentlemen,
Application to Panel of Reference
On behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury, may I thank you for your
comprehensive letter and enclosures, dated April 18, 2006. I can
confirm that the matter is now with the Panel of Reference, and I have
written to Bishop Howard to advise him accordingly. I have also advised
the Presiding Bishop, as a matter of courtesy.
May 05 2006
LONDON: Vicar defends protest against gay marriage
Mr Coekin appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who will deliver his judgment after the hearing. The Court of Arches was convened at the Fleet Street church of St Dunstan's, under the chairmanship of the Bishop of Winchester, the Right Rev Michael Scott-Joynt.
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May 05 2006
CANADA: Bishops speak out against Nigerian laws on homosexuality
They said they were "especially grieved" by the support for the legislation given by the Church of Nigeria, noting that the 1998 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops called upon churches to "listen to the experience of homosexual persons."
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May 04 2006
WASHINGTON: California Episcopalians consider gay bishop
The other two homosexual candidates are the Rev. Michael Barlowe, the California Diocese's development officer, and the Rev. Bonnie Perry, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Chicago.
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May 04 2006
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NETWORK RESPONDS TO SAN DIEGO BISHOP
Besides threatening inhibition and deposition for any rector who takes any action that the bishop deems to be moving a parish toward disaffiliating from the Diocese of San Diego, he threatens discipline over any attempt to affiliate with certain unnamed persons or organizations.
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May 04 2006
LOS ANGELES: Church Braces for Possible Election of Gay Bishop
However, leaders of rapidly growing churches in Africa, Asia and South America, which represent the vast majority of Anglicans, endorse traditional teachings on marriage and sexuality.
As a result, tensions over differing interpretations of scriptural teachings and homosexuality have pitted liberal Western parishioners against conservative African church members, and many church observers say the schism has taken on racial, as well as philosophical, overtones.
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May 03 2006
PLANO, TX: ECUSA Priest Giving Voice To Vows
"I am willing and ready to do so; and I solemnly declare that I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of The Episcopal Church.
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