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June 18 2004
VERMONT: New rites for civil unions - Episcopal Bishop sees 3 year trial period
''The commitment we are asking of persons who are entering into holy unions is of the same nature as the commitment we are asking of couples who are entering holy matrimony," Vermont Bishop Thomas Clark Ely said in a telephone interview from the diocesan headquarters in Burlington. ''These relationships are expressive of God's love . . . and the church should be willing to recognize and embrace these loving and committed relationships."
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June 18 2004
AUSTRALIA: Letters shock interim Anglican head
In the letters, Dr George writes to Reverend Mountford saying he is glad Reverend Mountford was not subjected to the humiliation and the public spectacle of media attention in his case.
"I am glad that you were not subjected to the pain, the humiliation and the public spectacle which the media would have relished in your case," he writes in the letter.
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June 18 2004
VANCOUVER: Anglican Communion in Canada Welcomes New Alliance
We hope that this new day of cooperation can be mirrored in Canada as
all orthodox groups work for a common cause of gospel faithfulness and
fruitfulness in the light of the recent General Synod's decision to
"affirm the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same sex
relationships" which as nine orthodox Canadian Bishops have noted "is in error and contrary to the teaching of Scripture and the tradition of the
June 18 2004
PITTSBURGH: Bishop Announces Network Alliance to his Diocese
Archbishop Eames made it clear to us that the principal issue the Commission was assigned to address was how the Anglican Communion could re-shape its life in light of a Province (the Episcopal Church in the United States) that has rejected the clear counsel and stated teaching of the Communion. The secondary issue the Commission struggles with – though not its stated assignment – is how deeply it is appropriate to enter into resolutions of the internal dispute within this Province.
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June 18 2004
AMiA Hales "Common Cause" With Other Anglican Orthodox Groups
The Rt. Rev. Chuck Murphy, Chairman of the Anglican Mission in America, welcomed the new day of cooperation, “Even as we watch with some sadness the painful yet necessary realignment in the Anglican Communion, I am encouraged by the willingness of a growing number of orthodox groups and voices to work together to shape a new Anglican witness for the 21st Century.”
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June 18 2004
ANGLICAN GROUPS TO MAKE COMMON CAUSE
As a whole, the groups represent or provide pastoral oversight for approximately 200,000 Christians in the Anglican tradition.
Calling divisions among orthodox Anglicans in North America “scandalous”, the letter goes on to state that the signatories clearly committed to cooperation through “additional steps as will help all observers to recognize that a new day is dawning.”
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June 14 2004
ALBANY: Episcopalians back conservatives
The decision to sanction a platform offered by the Anglican Communion Network was ratified by two separate groups at the annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany held in this Hamilton County community.
Out of more than 120 clergy who attended the convention, almost 80 percent voted to join the network, according to Canon Kay Hotaling, spokeswoman for the diocese. Among the 100 or so lay members, about 60 percent voted to join the network.
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June 13 2004
WASHINGTON DC: Episcopal Bishop Blesses a Gay Couple
About 180 people on hand at St. George's Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale gave the two men a lengthy standing ovation after the bishop pronounced a "blessing of the covenant" and the two men hugged and kissed. Mr. Hopkins, who is pastor at St. George's, was the national president of Integrity, the Episcopal homosexual caucus, for five years.
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June 13 2004
NAIROBI: African Anglicans get angry over Canadian action
The churches, whose leaders have been meeting in Kenya, expressed "total and absolute disgust and deepest regret at the unfortunate decision" of Canada's Anglican Church, which last week affirmed the "integrity and sanctity" of same-sex relationships.
The church deferred a decision on whether such relationships could be blessed until 2007. The question of same-sex marriage is not even on the agenda.
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June 13 2004
ENGLAND: Lord Carey faces complaint over Royal revelations
One lay member of the Church of England said yesterday that he would ask the Bishop of Southwark, who officiates over Lord Carey's pastoral responsibilities, to investigate his comments.
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