Anglican global network will fight for 'orthodox faith'

Jerusalem (ENI). About 1000 Anglican leaders meeting in Jerusalem have set up a new global network to ward off what they say is a breach of traditional biblical Anglicanism but have stopped short of announcing a total break with the worldwide Anglican Communion. In a final statement issued at the end of the 22-29 June Global Anglican Future Conference, or GAFCON, participants said that, "A major realignment has occurred and will continue to unfold" within Anglicanism. A group of archbishops and bishops mainly from Africa and Australia convened GAFCON. This followed a clash within the 77-million-strong Anglican Communion triggered in 2003, when the US Episcopal (Anglican) Church consecrated V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay divorced father, as a bishop in the US state of New Hampshire. [816 words, ENI-08-0515]

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