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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Vancouver Sun , Globe and Mail VANCOUVER - A South American Anglican archbishop who adamantly opposes homosexual relationships is coming to Vancouver on Friday despite being told to stay away by Canada's top Anglican. Archbishop Gregory Venables, who claims to represent 15 breakaway Anglican congregations in Canada, will speak Friday at a gathering in Delta of the conservative Anglican Network in Canada. Venables, who has been criticized as a rogue archbishop by Anglican colleagues in South America and elsewhere, is recruiting Anglican congregations in Canada and the U.S. that have...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Diocese of New Westminster and Canada.com Two British Columbia parishes in the Diocese of New Westminster have voted to ask to be added to the list of places where same sex blessings may take place. St. Mary’s Kerrisdale in Vancouver, and the Church of the Holy Spirit in Whonnock, Maple Ridge (formerly St. John’s Whonnock), voted by large margins to ask Bishop Michael Ingham to grant his permission for the parishes to conduct services for persons in committed, monogamous same sex relationships. Same-sex blessings have created a major schism within the Anglican Church, with at least 15 churches...
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Saturday, February 16
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Source: National Post and Canadian Press At least five more Anglican churches -- three in British Columbia and two in Ontario -- are likely to separate from the national Church over the divisive issue of same-sex blessings by the end of the month. Another four will also vote on similar motions this month. They will be following St. John's, the country's largest Anglican parish, which voted this week to leave the Anglican Church of Canada. The Vancouver parish chose to put itself under the authority of conservative Gregory Venables, the Archbishop of the Southern Cone, which encompasses...
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