Anglican summit scrutinizes U.S stance on gay clergy
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Anglican leaders discussed on Thursday the U.S. response to a report criticizing the church there for backing gay priests and same-sex unions, a row that could split the third-largest Christian denomination.
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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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Nigerian Anglicans are examining a report by a special commission that criticized US Anglicans for ordaining a gay bishop. The controversy has threatened to split the Anglican Church and is not yet over.
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The leader of Anglicans in the United  States said Sunday he thought a ban on the blessing of same-sex  marriages was unlikely as the Anglican Church struggles to  resolve a potential schism over homosexuality.
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Conservative Anglican leaders are to stage a breakaway summit in Jerusalem that could irretrievably fracture the 400-year-old church over a dispute with liberal clergy about homosexuality.
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The spiritual head of the U.S. Episcopal Church said on Friday its leaders would likely respond in full next week to a request by the broader Anglican communion that it stop ordaining openly gay bishops and outlaw the blessing of same-sex marriages.
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A keenly awaited report will be delivered Monday aimed at settling a row over gay clergy that has deeply divided the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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Episcopal bishops met privately for seven hours Thursday with the archbishop of Canterbury, trying to preserve the church's role in the Anglican family despite Episcopal support for gays.
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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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A report criticising US Anglicans for ordaining a gay bishop is welcomed by those who opposed his appointment.
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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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With the Anglican world anxiously waiting, Episcopal leaders weighed their response to demands that they bar any more gays from becoming bishops
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OXFORD, England (CNS) Catholic leaders have reacted cautiously to a major Anglican Communion report that establishes guidelines for tackling controversial issues such as blessing same-sex unions and ordaining ...
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LONDON - 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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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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A suggestion by African, Asian and   Latin American Anglican bishops that the Episcopal Church be   turned into two churches because of disputes over gay issues   would lead to chaos, the head of the U.S. church said on   Thursday.
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In a public rebuke of the Episcopal Church, a conservative diocese voted Saturday to affirm its membership in the worldwide Anglican Communion after distancing itself from the American denomination over issues of sexuality and the ordination of women.