Anglicans recommend divestment to pressure Israel
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JERUSALEM -- Representatives of the Anglican Church who toured Israel and the West Bank this week are recommending that the church withdraw investments from Israel to pressure the country to ease the ''draconian conditions&quot; imposed on the Palestinians, a church official said yesterday.
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A senior Anglican Church commission Monday urged US 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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The Anglican Church in Uganda is to stay away from the Lambeth Conference, a meeting of the world's Anglican bishops.
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International pressure will be key to ending the crisis in Zimbabwe as domestic opponents of President Robert Mugabe have lost heart, the head of the country&#39;s Catholic church said Tuesday.
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Anglican Church heads gather in Tanzania for a summit likely to be dominated by the divisive issue of gay clergy.
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A global meeting of Anglican leaders in Tanzania will focus on the issue of homosexuality, which currently threatens to break the church apart.
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An Anglican church report chastised the US Episcopal Church yesterday for consecrating a gay bishop and asked American church leaders to apologize or consider withdrawing from Anglican functions.
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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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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- 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 threatened to fracture the church.
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Israeli rabbinic authorities have abruptly called on Jews to shun a major Christian tourism event, baffling and upsetting evangelical groups that traditionally have been big supporters of the Jewish state.
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TORONTO (CP) - The United Church of Canada is pouring cold water on unionizing efforts by a group of stressed-out clergy.
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The leader of the world's Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has hit back at his critics amid a furore about his comments on Islamic law that have led to calls for him to quit.
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Academics are being urged to reject calls from colleagues for a boycott of Israeli universities.
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Islamic officials intensified calls for Israel to abandon a controversial dig in Jerusalem on Sunday, saying they were upset they had not been told sooner about a discovery of relics at the site three years ago.
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The Episcopal bishop of Jerusalem says Israel may soon long for the days when Yasser Arafat was alive. The Right Reverend Riah Abu el-Assal told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin during
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ARCHBISHOP of Wales Barry Morgan yesterday appealed for calm in the Anglican Communion as fears grew that a split on the issue of homosexuality is increasingly likely.
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Archbishop of York John Sentamu warned Anglican conservatives on Monday that boycotting a church summit next year means they will effectively expel themselves from the worldwide communion.