The row over gay clergy
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An Anglican report today criticised US bishops for ordaining an openly gay canon last year. Mark Oliver looks at the issues behind the row that has divided the Anglican communion.
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An Anglican commission sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the Americans to apologize.
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY  DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans spent Thursday locked in discussion about the church's American wing, whose leader is under increasing pressure to reconsider her support for ordaining gays and blessing same-sex couples.
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Conservatives and liberals locked horns  over homosexuality at a Church of England synod on Wednesday as  the worldwide Anglican communion faced the grim prospect of  schism.
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Anglican leaders discussed on Thursday the U.S. response to a report criticizing the church there for backing gay priests and same-sex unions, a row that could split the third-largest Christian denomination.
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CHICAGO _ Many conservative Anglicans would agree with Nigerian lay minister Davis Mac-Iyalla that the summer of 2003 _ when the Episcopal Church approved the first openly gay bishop _ left a gaping hole and wrenching pain in their hearts. But not for the same reasons.
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The Episcopal Church&#039;s top policymaking body struggled Friday to balance Anglican demands to temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops with pleas from liberals against such a move.
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The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called Sunday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
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A report criticizing the US Episcopal Church&#39;s consecration of a gay bishop has drawn mixed feelings among some Episcopal churches in Lower Bucks.
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U.S. Episcopal bishops began a conference on Thursday expected to be dominated by a schism over gay clergy and same-sex unions that threatens to split the global Anglican church.
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LONDON - Advocates on both sides of the Anglican battle over homosexuality registered their unhappiness yesterday with the attempt by US bishops to keep their place in the global communion. Supporters of gay clergy accused American Episcopal bishops of caving in to pressure from conservatives, while traditionalists criticized what they said was a cleverly worded declaration of defiance. Episcopal bishops ...
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Anglican leaders met on Friday to consider a report about the U.S. church's response to criticism of its backing of gay clergy and same sex unions, in a row threatening to tear the church apart.
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Anglican leaders concluded their five-day meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday by issuing a demand that the U.S. Episcopal Church unequivocally stop blessing same-sex unions and consecrating any more gay bishops.
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Rifts in the Anglican Communion appear to be growing in the wake of a church commission report that asks US Episcopalians to apologize for installing gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson in New Hampshire last year.
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The Episcopal bishop of New York fears that the Anglican Churchâs demands over gay issues could force the American church into a corner.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said on Friday the Anglican Communion he heads cannot agree if the United States Episcopal Church has stepped back from its liberal stands on gay bishops and scriptural authority.
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Conservatives and liberals locked horns over homosexuality at a Church of England synod on Wednesday as the worldwide Anglican communion faced the grim prospect of schism.