Anglican leader in showdown with US church over gay clergy
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams held crisis talks Thursday with US bishops to prevent a split in the global communion as a deadline approaches for the US church to reverse its liberal stance on homosexuality.
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Rifts in the Anglican Communion appear to be growing in the wake of a church commission report that asks US Episcopalians to apologize for installing gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson in New Hampshire last year.
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An Anglican church commission on Monday urged the U.S. Episcopal Church not to elect any more gay bishops and called on conservative African bishops to stop meddling in the affairs of other dioceses.
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Top British Anglican leaders are bringing new pressure on the Episcopal General Convention to enact a ban on electing gay bishops before the assembly ends next week.
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The Anglican hierarchy urged U.S. church  leaders Monday to apologize for consecrating a gay bishop and  called for a moratorium on same-sex marriages.
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U.S. Episcopal bishops began a conference on Thursday expected to be dominated by a schism over gay clergy and same-sex unions that threatens to split the global Anglican church.
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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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Anglican leaders met on Friday to consider a report about the U.S. church's response to criticism of its backing of gay clergy and same sex unions, in a row threatening to tear the church apart.
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The Episcopal Church&#039;s top policymaking body struggled Friday to balance Anglican demands to temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops with pleas from liberals against such a move.
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The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called Sunday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
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Anglican leader saying Britain should consider recognizing parts of Islamic law sets off debate.
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The Church of England is to consider possible rules for settling Anglican disputes, amid the row over gay priests.
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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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The worldwide Anglican Communion, which has been embroiled in theological civil war since its US branch, the Episcopal Church, welcomed an openly gay bishop last year, gets
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Can the Archbishop of Canterbury lead his flock back from the brink of a rancorous schism over homosexuality?
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has held last-ditch talks to end the gay clergy row threatening the worldwide Anglican church.
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An Anglican report today criticised US bishops for ordaining an openly gay canon last year. Mark Oliver looks at the issues behind the row that has divided the Anglican communion.