Islamist attackers killed 40 and kidnapped numerous people in a northern Nigerian market attack just over a week after airstrikes targeted ISIS training camps.
Some deny the religious roots of violence sweeping the country, while others welcome help of any kind, alleging federal government complicity in the attacks.
The pressures of time led to a number of widely supported compromises: new liturgical canons that secured protections for conservatives alongside prayer book revisions desired by progressives, and a concession to the bishops’ insistence that the State of Israel is not an “apartheid” regime.
Members of the House of Deputies spent nearly two hours of floor discussion on June 26 seeking to alter moderating language inserted by the House of Bishops into two resolutions about the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
