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Source: Anglican Journal , Virtue Online A group of evangelical bishops from the Church of England tried to make peace with conservative primates (national archbishops) who are planning to boycott this summer's Lambeth Conference, an important gathering of all bishops in the Anglican Communion that...

Source: UK Gay News , GayNZ.com LAGOS -- A gay leader of the Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN) group in Nigeria says he feared for his life after a mob attack outside a funeral ceremony in Port Harcourt on Thursday. "I have never known fear like I knew when they were brutalizing me. I thought they...

Source: Guardian , Times (London) , Independent , Press Association , Daily Mail A new book by the Bishop of Winchester has rekindled the row over the Church of England’s attitude to homosexuality. The book was released just as Church of England bishops prepare to meet for their biennial synod. The bishop's...

Source: Hereford Times and Telegraph A GAY man refused a Church job because of his sexuality has been awarded compensation. John Reaney will receive £47,345 from the Diocese of Hereford having won an employment tribunal last June. Mr Reaney, 42, successfully claimed discrimination by the Bishop of Hereford...

Source: Guardian and PinkNews One of England's most senior bishops has argued that the Bible sanctions same-sex relationships, using the bonds between Jesus and John the disciple, and David and Jonathan as examples. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones, a conservative evangelical, expressed...

Source: CBC News , Canadian Press , and National Post A former Anglican bishop who has led a campaign against ordaining gays and lesbians says he feels terrible that his colleagues in eastern Newfoundland are being asked to declare their allegiance to the church. Donald Harvey, the former bishop for...

Source: Jerusalem Post The battle over homosexuality that has threatened to split the Anglican Communion could be decided at a June meeting in Jerusalem. On December 26, a conservative coalition led by the archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, announced a June 15-22 conference in the Holy Land to chart...

Source: Reuters via Boston Globe LONDON (Reuters) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair has converted from Britain's established church, Anglicanism, to Roman Catholicism, the head of Britain's Catholics said on Saturday. Blair, whose wife and four children are Catholic, was received into...

Source: AFP via Google OTTAWA (AFP) — A second Anglican bishop on Thursday deserted his Canadian church to join its more conservative branch in South America following a theological split over homosexuality. Bishop Malcolm Harding said in a statement he will now minister under Archbishop Gregory Venables...

Source: GayNZ.com This time last year, the ordination of openly gay Dunedin man Juan Kinnear as deacon of his Anglican Church sparked outrage from some conservatives who protested loudly at the ceremony. But fortunately there were no protestors at St. Paul's Cathedral last Saturday for Kinnear's...