Friday, October 17, 2008

More Canadian defections in gay row

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=3083

[Religious Intelligence] 17 Oct 2008--Four more congregations have voted to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and to join the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). They will fall under the episcopal oversight of Bishop Donald Harvey, moderator of the ANiC, and under the primatial authority of Archbishop Gregory Venables, primate of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.

The departures of the congregations of St Aidan's in Windsor, Ontario; St George's Ottawa; the Church of St Peter, Hamilton, Ontario; and St Bede's, Kinosota, Manitoba, bring to 14 the number of congregations that have left the Anglican church amid clashing views on the blessing of same-sex unions. (There are about 2,800 congregations in the Canadian church, which is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, the ENS news service is reporting.)

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