Splits feared in Anglican Church
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A new report which aims to heal divisions over homosexuality in the Anglican Church is due out on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES -- Two Episcopal parishes in Southern California announced yesterday that they had broken with the national church over the issue of homosexuality, placing themselves under the jurisdiction of a conservative Anglican bishop from Africa.
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Anglican leader saying Britain should consider recognizing parts of Islamic law sets off debate.
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By Cathy Lynn Grossman  Tensions between the worldwide Anglican Communion and its liberal U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, continued Tuesday as both sides fell to arguing over the requirements listed in documents released by the top bishops of the 77-million-member Communion.
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Issues surrounding a possible reuniting of the Catholic and Anglican churches under the pope are discussed in a 42-page statement currently being prepared, church leaders said on Tuesday.
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - 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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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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Strife over Episcopal policy on gay clergy split one congregation. How many other schisms will follow?
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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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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Seven conservative Anglican leaders refused to take Holy Communion with the head of the US branch of the church, who supports ordaining gays and blessing same-sex unions, as the fellowship struggles to avert a split.
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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.
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John Danforth, an Episcopal priest and former U.S. senator, warned Thursday that the church risked irrelevancy by focusing on divisive issues such as gay clergy and same-gender couples.
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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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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.
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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania -- The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called yesterday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
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Conservative Anglicans suffer a setback in their efforts to expel the US Church over its liberal stance on homosexuality.
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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.