Archbishop of Canterbury urges Ugandan Anglicans to reject anti-gay law
London, UK Reuters The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the Anglican Church of Uganda to reject the country’s new anti-LGBT law, saying there is no justification for Anglicans anywhere to support legislation that goes against the Christian teachings of the Gospel. Under the law, approved by President Yoweri Museveni in May, gay sex is punishable […]
“We cannot walk with you unless you repent,” African archbishops tell Church of England
Nairobi, Kenya RNS Conservative Anglican archbishops in Africa are challenging a decision by the Church of England to allow clergy to bless same sex couples’ marriages, warning that the move puts the worldwide Anglican Communion in further jeopardy. The leaders are reacting to the 9th February vote at the Church of England’s General Synod to permit the […]
Pope, Anglican, Presbyterian leaders denounce anti-gay laws
Aboard the papal plane AP Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalisation of homosexuality on Sunday and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches. The three Christian leaders spoke out on LGBTQ rights during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference returning home from South […]
A divided church: Friction over LGBTQ issues worsens in global Anglican church
CHINEDU ASADU and DAVID CRARY, of The Associated Press, and CATHERINE PEPINSTER, of Religion News Service, report on widening divisions among Anglican bishops over the issues of same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy…
At Lambeth, Anglican Communion abandons vote on same-sex marriage
Canterbury England RNS The prejudice felt by gay people over same-sex marriage is the new racism, according to the head of the Episcopal Church of the United States. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, in an interview with Religion News Service on Tuesday, said that in the United States, “the issue of gay […]
Communion row over same-sex marriage overshadows Lambeth Conference opening
London, UK RNS Bishops from the Global South announced during a meeting of leaders of the Anglican Communion that they will refuse Holy Communion from bishops with gay partners and from those who support same-sex marriage. The announcement came on Friday morning at the Lambeth Conference, being held in Canterbury, as the orthodox bishops also […]
Same-sex marriage sparks divisive debate at twice-delayed Lambeth Conference
London, UK RNS Anglican bishops from all over the world began the Lambeth Conference this week amid a furious conflict over same-sex marriage and a scramble by the archbishop of Canterbury and other church leaders to defuse it. The conference, meeting for the first time in 14 years, was supposed to be an attempt to […]
Bishop Barbara Harris, first woman bishop of Anglican Communion, dies at 89
RNS Retired Bishop Barbara Harris, the first woman to be ordained and consecrated as a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, died on Friday. She was 89. Harris died at a hospice house after a recent hospitalisation. “Our hearts are truly heavy at the loss of one who has been a faithful and altogether irrepressible […]
Citing inclusion of LGBT clerics, Anglican bishops in Africa to shun Lambeth Conference
Nairobi, Kenya RNS As disputes over homosexuality continue to stir within the worldwide Anglican Communion, conservative African bishops say they will boycott a decennial gathering of top clerics next summer unless what the Africans consider Godly order is restored. After delaying the Lambeth Conference, normally held once a decade, for two years, Archbishop of Canterbury […]
Lodging for spouses becomes Anglicans’ latest battleground over LGBT clergy
London RNS A British university that customarily houses those attending the Anglican Communion’s worldwide gathering of bishops is welcoming same-sex clergy couples to stay on campus despite the Archbishop of Canterbury’s attempt to ban gay and lesbian bishops’ spouses from the 2020 Lambeth Conference. For years the issue of homosexuality and how the Church of […]