"We want to report that our diocese was offered a donation of $27,000 from a gay diocese which we have turned down," Semakula said.

Orombi commended the diocese for rejecting the offer and urged all dioceses not to be tempted to accept donations from dioceses that support homosexuality.

"We must fight homosexuality," Orombi said.

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U.S. Episcopal bishops, fighting fallout from their consecration of the church's first openly gay bishop, decided last month to also withdraw from official participation in the council.

But like the Canadian church, they will send representatives when the body meets in Nottingham, England.

It will launch a DVD next week that features a paedophile who groomed children for abuse in a church and it will issue leaflets with titles such as "Help... a sex offender has joined my church."

The DVD, Supporting Offenders Safely - the Supervision and Pastoral Care of Sex Offenders, which has been part-funded by the Department for Education and Skills, tells clergy that they have to be realistic about the risks posed by convicted abusers and take tough action if necessary.

We are disappointed and deeply concerned, however, that the bishops' statement does not address critical issues in the task of repairing the situation of torn communion. We find it difficult to understand how this statement in fact honours the spirit and intent of the call for a moratorium set out in the Windsor Report (§ 144) and confirmed in the Primates' Communiqué (§ 14) for a moratorium on "all such public Rites" for the blessing of same sex unions.