Baroness Scotland, of Asthal, QC, admitted that "there are issues which we found difficult" and pleaded with peers to give her time to try to bring forward amendments at its report stage.
Opposition to the Bill, which has been led by an eclectic alliance including evangelical Christian groups and the comedian Rowan Atkinson, is likely to intensify after her admission of doubts within the Government over the Bill.
Read moreToday, many devout Christian Nigerians adhere firmly to the view that homosexuality is ungodly, and they have been rankled by its growing acceptance among church leaders in the United States and Europe. As the descendants of Nigerians who abandoned their traditional values under the influence of Western preaching, some Christians here say they feel betrayed and offended that the spiritual descendants of those missionaries are now trying to change the rules.
Read moreSome 50 faithful Anglicans came together for the conference titled The Affirmation of St. Louis: Seeking a Path to Reconciliation and Unity, co-sponsored by the Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen and the Anglican Fellowship of the Delaware Valley (AFDV).
At the same time, we want to express our objections to the unlawful actions that continue to be exercised by those who claim to be acting with your permission or authority.
Read moreMore than 120 conservative clerics and loyalists are expected from across the so-called Anglican "south" -- Africa, Asia and Latin America -- who have increasingly warned they could form independent, breakaway churches. The tensions have become so alarming that the leader of the Anglican communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, plans to travel to Egypt in an apparent attempt to calm dissent led by powerful Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola.
Read moreThe strategy was revealed in a leaked copy of minutes drafted at a Sept. 29 meeting in Dallas of a 10-member steering committee for Via Media, a network of 13 liberal independent Episcopal groups.
Read moreV. Gene Robinson will celebrate the second anniversary of his consecration next month. He reflected on his two years as bishop in an interview with Foster's Sunday Citizen last week. He compared the outrage over his sexuality with disagreement over the ordination of women priests about three decades ago.
Read moreThe course, by the Reverend Robert Warren, former rector of St Thomas', Sheffield, and Sue Mayfield, a children's author, will attempt to restore some of the traditional Sabbath observances to the Christian community that are practised in Judaism.
Read moreHe claimed during a lecture at the Yale Divinity School that the implications of recent actions by the Church of Nigeria, which had removed all references to being in communion with the See of Canterbury, were "most serious".
He claimed that this was in contrast to the Windsor Report which had sought a "corporate striving to find the will of God in contentious and divisive issues".
Archbishop Eames himself chaired the Lambeth Commission which produced the report.
Read moreThe resolution, while not binding, gives the diocese, "a sense of this convention at this time," Smith said. There will be other occasions to discuss whether priests should preside over civil unions or not, he said.
Gay issues have divided the U.S. Episcopal Church and are at the center of an ongoing dispute between Smith and six priests who had asked to be supervised by a different bishop.
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