Catholic clerics in Benue State, Nigeria, have called on the national and subnational governments to protect human life and restore occupied territories.
The primates of the Anglican Communion have two new members: the 16th moderator of the Church of North India and the Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies.
Some deny the religious roots of violence sweeping the country, while others welcome help of any kind, alleging federal government complicity in the attacks.
Some clerics say their church remains homophobic and others vow to defy the bishops, with the eight-year LLF process stopped dead by new legal and theological guidance.
“If our faith is to stand strong amid persecution and fear, we must raise men and women who think biblically, act compassionately, and lead faithfully,” Bishop Azad Marshall said.
Archbishop Titus Chung is the first major conservative Anglican leader to express concerns about the implications of GAFCON’s Global Anglican Communion.
All 12 men who drafted the plan for the Global Anglican Communion hail from dioceses and churches that have never been part of the Anglican Communion or have been largely disengaged from it for the last two decades.
Archbishop Steve Wood is accused of making sexual advances toward a staff member at his South Carolina church, as well as financial impropriety, plagiarism, and bullying.
We have need of you, my brothers and sisters in the Lord. With you, we strive “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.”
The Secretary General urged engagement with the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals and spoke kindly of GAFCON as a reform movement, while inviting its members to next summer’s ACC Meeting.
Member churches of the new body must forswear participation in the Instruments of Communion and the chair of its council would assume Canterbury’s historic role.
Stand-alone services for the blessing of same-sex unions and permission for clergy to enter civil same-sex marriages will now require action by General Synod, which will likely take years.
