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Anglican Bishops Warn of Split (may be misreported) (UPDATED)

Saturday, February 24, 2007 • 10:07 am

This story, originally posted HERE has been updated as follows:

UPDATE: 2/24/2007 - Have just had a response from the communications officer of the province of Nigeria that said, “Very many errors. The archbishop will soon release a press statement to put things right.” Will be looking for that and post it when available.

ALSO: A second story, same subject, different author, different source, is also running at allAfrica.com HERE, with what appears to be more rational content.

That story originally appeared in the East Africa Standard.

Original story, as posted, follows:

This cat is out of the bag. The reporters link the September 30 deadline with Canterbury and the “mother church” but the main thrust of the article seems to ring true.

allAfrica.com, 2/23/2007

African Anglican bishops yesterday warned of a split among faithful unless the mother church stopped embracing homosexuality by September 30.

Led by Nigeria’s Archbishop Peter Akinola and Kenya’s Benjamin Nzimbi, the bishops said if Canterbury “does not come back to us by September 30, we will decide whether they will continue being with us or not.”

Let us know if they will have stopped celebrating same sex marriages and ordaining homosexuals,” Bishop Akinola who is the chairman of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) said during the launch of an HIV /Aids prevention plan at Panafric Hotel. ...

Bishop Akinola said although African bishops had demanded repentance from churches which had embraced homosexuality and that the practice be stopped, nothing had been done. “They have failed to meet all our requirements. We decided to continue together in love but given them another chance to stop by the end of September,” the bishops said. ...

“We will see if they comply by September 30,” the bishop (Nzimbi) said.

Unconfirmed reports indicated that Anglicans in Africa planned to form a splinter group after September 30 if some churches in the West continued to embrace homosexuality.

Read it all.

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The original story made absolutely no sense at all.  I’m eager to read the reality of this.  I’ve seen some of the revisionist blogs going bonkers over it…I can’t wait for the heapin’ helpin’ of crow that will soon come.

[1] Posted by Jeffersonian on 02-24-2007 at 03:58 PM • top

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