Friday, July 11, 2008

Hong Kong Primate says Gafcon conference ‘harms’ Anglican Communion

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=2288

[Religious Intelligence] 11 Jul 2008--The Hong Kong Anglican Primate has criticized the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon), held in Jerusalem this July, saying it has ‘brought severe harm’ to the Anglican Communion.

Archbishop Paul Kwong, the Anglican Primate of the Hong Kong province, said that Anglicans with different opinions on ordaining homosexual bishops should solve the problem through dialogue.

He criticized the Anglican bishops from the "traditionalist camp", whom he said not only refused to dialogue, but also held the conference in advance of the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference and thus brought severe harm to the Anglican Communion.

The only Chinese Anglican Primate in the Communion doubted if the traditionalist camp would like to set up another core group, moving the leadership of the Anglican Communion [from Canterbury] to some other provinces.

The Primate's comments were issued in the July 6 issue of the "Echo" (the Chinese weekly magazine of the Anglican Province).

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