GAFCON: The end of the Communion is not nigh
Posted on June 20, 2008
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A report in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper referring to the book was headlined Hardline bishops declare Anglican split and went on to declare that they had “formally declared an end to the Anglican communion”.
That was firmly rejected by one of the GAFCON leaders, Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen, who referred to the actions in North America by churches in defiance of the Lambeth decisions of 1998 on homosexuality.
“If we’re talking about schism and the break up of the communion, that’s where it starts and that’s where the responsibility is,” Archbishop Jensen says. …
– Report by Russell Powell for SydneyAnglicans.net.
– Also hear Archbishop Peter Jensen at this morning’s press conference in Jerusalem.
(Photo: Archbishop Peter Jensen speaks to the BBC in London from the BBC’s Amman bureau – Russell Powell.)
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