Anglicans Criticize U.S. Church on Gays
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LONDON - An Anglican church commission on Monday sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union...
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A special commission of the worldwide Anglican Church on Monday called on leaders of its US affiliate, the Episcopal Church, to express regret for consecrating a gay bishop and
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans opened a crucial meeting yesterday as the church struggles to reconcile Scripture and homosexuality, with the American wing coming under increasing pressure to reconsider its liberal stance on gays.
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U.S. Episcopalian bishops on Thursday  expressed regret for having consecrated the group's first  openly gay bishop, but said they needed more time to respond to  a call that they halt such ordinations and stop blessing  same-sex marriages.
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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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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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Description: Influential leaders of the Anglican Communion sharply criticize the US Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop.
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An Anglican Communion report released yesterday urged those involved in last year&#39;s consecration of an openly gay Episcopal Church bishop in New Hampshire to apologize
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FRESNO, California  - A California diocese of the Episcopal Church on Saturday took a major step toward breaking with the U.S. church because of its position on issues including homosexuality, a move unseen since the U.S. Civil War.
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Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans on Thursday were to discuss the liberal stance on gays taken by the church's American wing, as concerns about gay priests and same-sex unions threaten to break apart the Christian denomination.
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Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says her church has been unfairly singled out for criticism because it is honest about consecrating 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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Leaders of the Episcopal Church told worldwide Anglican bishops on Thursday they had no authority to try to make the church's U.S. branch change its stand on the consecration of gay bishops.
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A long-awaited report into homosexuality within the Anglican community called for a US church to apologise for appointing an openly gay bishop and warned that a repeat could split the faith down the middle.
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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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London - The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised conservatives in the Anglican church for using hostile words about homosexuals in the recent row over the ordination of gay 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.