"They will especially hunt those in Beijing," a Hong Kong source told CT. "I t took them by surprise that there were so many Christians in China. Every week pastors are arrested and thrown in jail. The communists see Christians a s a threat because there are [more] Christians than party members."

Members of the 17-strong Commission said that that they were saddened, however, that "tensions within the Communion, exacerbated by the use of strident language, have continued to rise in recent months".

The Commission was set up last October by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in the midst of the controversy over the appointment of Dr Gene Robinson, a practising homosexual as a Bishop in New Hampshire in the USA.

The Christian pollster George Barna put together a list of biblical
teachings that presumably Christians of every denomination or
theological tradition could affirm: There is absolute moral truth based
on the Bible; biblical teaching is accurate; Jesus was without sin;
Satan literally exists; God is omnipotent and omniscient; salvation is
by grace alone; Christians have a personal responsibility to evangelize.

In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duncan said some of
his earliest memories revolve around attending church in his hometown of
Bordentown, N.J. The church was stable and reliable, a sanctuary for a
boy whose home life often included beatings from his emotionally
disturbed mother. In a society that he calls highly sexualized and
confused, Duncan believes Robinson is clearly outside the moral bounds
of the Anglican Communion.