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October 21 2004
Gay US bishop: I will not resign
Gene Robinson was responding to a report which called on the American Church to apologise for consecrating him last November as a bishop.
A senior Nigerian Anglican leader has condemned the report as unbalanced.
Archbishop Peter Akinola accused liberals of being "hell bent" on destroying the Anglican communion.
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October 20 2004
SYDNEY: Dean Jensen challenges inaccuracies
I have not been able to speak before this for a variety of reasons. When the reports first came out I was still in England. Before I had a chance to read them I was in the air flying home.
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October 20 2004
AUSTRALIA: "We'll listen but not condone"
"Lambeth did get it right," Dr Thompson said. "For almost 2000 years Scripture has been unambiguous. Is it not our own postmodern culture that has caused us to question this?"
Lecturer in Ethics at Moore, Dr Andrew Cameron, urged the Synod to remember that "Christians have always understood that sexuality has been purposed towards marriage".
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October 20 2004
CANADA: Orthodox Vancouver Anglicans Welcome Report
The report also asks calls for a moratorium on further blessings and asks bishops who have authorized the blessings – including Vancouver Bishop Michael Ingham -- to apologize or consider withdrawing from “representative participation” in the Anglican Communion.
The report recommends individual Anglican jurisdictions to promise not to make decisions that threaten to impair the unity of the church worldwide.
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October 20 2004
FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES NOT FACED BY WINDSOR REPORT SAYS REFORM
While REFORM members are fully supportive of initiatives to bring about reconciliation between Anglicans worldwide, the unity of the church depends on shared convictions about the authority of God’s Word and our calling to be faithful. Where this has been so overtly challenged – as it has in ECUSA and the diocese of New Westminster in Canada – the threat to unity must be addressed firmly.
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October 20 2004
Windsor 2004: Statement from Nigeria's Archbishop Akinola
Why, throughout the document, is there such a marked contrast between the language used against those who are subverting the faith and that used against those of us, from the Global South, who are trying to bring the church back to the Bible? Where are the expressions of deep concern for the men and women whose witness is jeopardized and whose lives are at risk because of the actions of ECUSA?
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October 20 2004
Church faces split as report fails to heal gays row
Archbishop Robin Eames, Primate of Ireland, pictured at right. 
October 20 2004
Windsor 2004: Nigerian Anglican Leader Blasts Report
"Why, throughout the document, is there such a marked contrast between the language used against those who are subverting the faith and that used against those of us, from the global south, who are trying to bring the church back to the Bible?" he said.
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October 19 2004
AP: Anglicans criticize U.S. church on gays
The report also urged the Canadian and American churches to refrain from blessing same-sex unions, arguing that North American liberals had breached "the proper restraints of the bonds of affection" among Anglicans.
"Should the call to halt and find ways of continuing in our present communion not be heeded, then we shall have to begin to learn to walk apart," said the unanimous report of a 17-member commission headed by Irish Archbishop Robin Eames.
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October 19 2004
LONDON TIMES EDITORIAL: Don't ask, don't tell
Were the conclusions of yesterday’s report to be accepted and adopted throughout the Anglican Communion, then the authority of the Arch-bishop would be enhanced and the Church more united, fitter and stronger to face future challenges. In reality, however, it could not be hoped that such fundamental disagreements would be resolved in a single year and within a single report.
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