African Anglicans' speak of 'duty' to consecrate dissident US clerics

Nairobi (ENI). Anglican leaders in East Africa have defended the consecration as bishops of priests from the U.S. Episcopal Church, who are opposed to the ordination of homosexual clergy in North America. "We have a pastoral duty," Bishop Gideon Ireri, who heads the Anglican Church of Kenya's Justice and Peace Commission, told Ecumenical News International from his Mbeere diocese in eastern Kenya. "We are one Anglican Communion, and we cannot let the American flock that is faithful to their sexuality scatter. It is a lesser evil to provide them with pastoral care." [420 words, ENI-07-0696]

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