Communiques message delivers a blow to West

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[The Church of England Newspaper] November 2, 2005--The third South-to-South meeting of Anglicans in the midst of a crisis over homosexuality in the Anglican Communion is viewed as a schismatic threat by some liberal Anglicans, and a sign of hope for realignment by many Western traditionalists. In reality, it is probably neither. As a movement it expresses the increasing numerical importance of Anglicanism in the global south and the confidence of Anglicans in that region. Yet this third communiqué from over 100 Anglican leaders meeting near the Red Sea, did not match the most extreme expectations of some Western observers. Inevitably much of the communiqué, and the mood of the meeting itself, was concerned with problems of disease, war, corruption and poverty in the Global South itself.

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