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.
Britain’s most influential Jewish organization called for a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby to discuss “deeply troubling” portions of an op-ed about the plight of Israel’s Palestinian Christians that he co-wrote for the December 19 Sunday Times.
The Most Rev. Dr. Hosam Naoum, the newly installed Archbishop of Jerusalem, called on Anglicans and all Christians to pray for peace in the face of rapidly escalating violence between Israel and the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
