Anglicans Criticize U.S. Church on Gays
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An Anglican commission sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the Americans to apologize.
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Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans spent Thursday locked in discussion about the church's American wing, whose leader is under increasing pressure to reconsider her support for ordaining gays and blessing same-sex couples.
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Anglican Church head Rowan Williams has  warned church leaders that criticism of gay people could make  them vulnerable to persecution or suicide.
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An Anglican church council report that criticized the US Episcopal Church for installing a gay bishop went beyond what some local pastors had hoped for.
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An Anglican panel studying the consecration of an openly gay bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church failed to give American conservatives what they sought Monday: punishment for church leaders and quick recognition for the network of dissenting congregations.
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The U.S. Episcopal Church is in the middle of a wrenching debate that could end with its departure from the Worldwide Anglican Communion over disagreements about gay clergy and same-sex unions.
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LONDON -- A leader of African Anglicans who have been outraged by the appointment of a gay bishop in the United States blasted a church report on the dispute, saying yesterday that it should have pushed for US Episcopalians to repent.
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U.S. Episcopal Church bishops told Anglican leaders around the world on Tuesday that they will urge restraint in elevating gays or lesbians to the position of bishop and will not authorize rites to be used for the blessing of same-sex marriages.
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Anglican leaders, striving to stop their  loose association of churches falling apart, urged North  American liberals Monday to ban same-sex marriages and the  consecration of gay bishops.
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A senior Anglican Church commission Monday urged U.S. church leaders to apologize for consecrating a gay priest as bishop and called for a moratorium on the blessing of same-sex marriages.
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LONDON - Advocates on both sides of the Anglican battle over homosexuality registered their unhappiness yesterday with the attempt by US bishops to keep their place in the global communion. Supporters of gay clergy accused American Episcopal bishops of caving in to pressure from conservatives, while traditionalists criticized what they said was a cleverly worded declaration of defiance. Episcopal bishops ...
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Bishops of the Episcopal Church rejected demands by leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion to roll back the churchâs liberal stance on homosexuality.
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The head of the US Episcopal Church expresses 'regret' over the appointment of a gay Anglican bishop.
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LONDON - Anglicans hope a long-awaited report will resolve divisions within the church that have intensified with the ordination of an openly gay bishop in the United States.    The ordination last November of Bishop V...
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Anglican leaders concluded their five-day meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday by issuing a demand that the U.S. Episcopal Church unequivocally stop blessing same-sex unions and consecrating any more gay bishops.
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An international commission intent on stopping the splintering of the worldwide association of Anglican churches rebuked the US Episcopal Church Monday for electing a gay bishop
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said on Friday the Anglican Communion he heads cannot agree if the United States Episcopal Church has stepped back from its liberal stands on gay bishops and scriptural authority.