Presiding Bishop Rowe believes that continued partnership with the federal government would undermine the church’s commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.
Plans are underway for the creation of the Anglican Communion’s 42nd province, the Igreja Anglicana de Moçambique e Angola (IAMA), which would eventually gather a half million Portuguese-speaking Anglicans in the two southern African nations.
The Rev. June Major, who alleges that she was raped by a fellow seminarian in 2002, agreed to end her six-day hunger strike outside the Archbishop of Cape Town's residence after the church agreed to launch a disciplinary process to investigate her allegations and to ask police to re-open her case.