Anglicans 'in Interpretive Free-Fall' Over Their Future
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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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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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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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The head of the Church of England answers critics of a speech in which he said  it might be applicable in certain areas.
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The most influential Anglican leader in Africa said Thursday that the global Anglican Communion is "broken" over the confirmation of a gay bishop in New Hampshire and may be beyond repair.
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Conservative American Anglicans opposed   to the ordination of gay clergy must break away from their   liberal colleagues in order to be recognized by traditionalists   in the developing world, a bishops group said.
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Cautious optimism greets church report that offers road to reconciliation after US wing approved a gay bishop. By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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African Anglican bishops said Monday that they were considering establishing a theology that conforms to the continent's culture, including prevailing beliefs against same-sex unions.
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Anglican Church head Rowan Williams has  warned church leaders that criticism of gay people could make  them vulnerable to persecution or suicide.
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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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Two congregations are to announce whether they will leave the US Anglican Church in a row over gay clergy.
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An Anglican Church report issued this  week lays the groundwork for resolving a potential schism  between liberals and conservatives over homosexuality, the gay  U.S. bishop at the heart of the dispute said on Wednesday.
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BURGESS HILL, England -- Every morning on his walk to work, high school teacher Graham Wright recited a favorite Anglican prayer and asked God for strength in the day ahead. Then two years ago, he just stopped.
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Catholics have overtaken Anglicans in  church attendance in Britain, according to research published  on Sunday.
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A rise in Islamist extremism is creating "no-go areas" in Britain for non-Muslims, a senior Anglican bishop said in a newspaper article Sunday, warning the country's Christian status was at risk.
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Coming days after Archbishop's comments, judgment could have profound consequences for British Muslims
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LONDON - Anglicans hope a long-awaited report will resolve divisions within the church that have intensified with the ordination of an openly gay bishop in the United States.    The ordination last November of Bishop V...