African archbishop gets excommunicated
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Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the Zambian prelate who already had angered the Vatican by getting married in 2001, has been excommunicated for again defying the Holy See by installing four married men as bishops, the Vatican said Tuesday.
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Axed Anglican bishop Nolbert Kunonga, an ally of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, has formed a splinter church after his ousting in a dispute over homosexuality, a state weekly reported Sunday.
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President Olusegun Obasajo of Nigeria has challenged Anglican bishops meeting in Nigeria to provide courageous and godly leadership in matters of faith and moral conduct.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - The subject of Sunday's sermon at St. Stephen's Anglican Church was repentance, and the preacher found an obvious example of the sinfulness of contemporary culture within the branch of his own denomination an ocean away in the United States.
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Africa's Anglican bishops condemn homosexuality as an "abomination" at their summit meeting in Nigeria.
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A leading cardinal said the Vatican will excommunicate the doctors who performed Colombia's first legal abortion on an 11-year old girl who allegedly was raped by her stepfather.
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An African archbishop who scandalized the Roman Catholic Church when he was married by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon said Sunday that a top Vatican official has demanded he repent or his authority to celebrate Mass and perform other duties will be suspended.
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Emmanuel Milingo, 76, has caused dismay in the Vatican by using rites from traditional African ceremonies.
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A judge on Tuesday found two men guilty of murdering a Roman Catholic archbishop, though the magistrate said the motive for the assassination and who ordered it remained a mystery.
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President Robert Mugabe said he would pray for Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, an outspoken government critic accused of having an affair.
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President Olusegun Obasanjo has praised Anglican bishops from Africa for what he called their principled stand against homosexuality.
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Archbishop Christodoulos, who helped heal centuries-old grievances with the Roman Catholic Church but also but stirred controversy, was 69.
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The head of the Episcopal Church left for London suddenly Wednesday to do damage control among his global counterparts as they prepare to ostracize him.
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A Roman Catholic archbishop has begun an all-out assault on the president of Zimbabwe, who has dismissed him as "an angry, evil and embittered little bishop."
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Catholic bishops on Friday accused the government of making "crude attempts" to divert attention from Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis by publicizing allegations of adultery against an archbishop who is an outspoken critic of the regime.
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A bishop who claimed Islamic extremism turned some communities into no-go areas receives threats.