Homosexual Priests: Nigerian Anglicans Will Not Succumb To Pressure From The West, Says Akinola

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[The Nigerian Guardian] 30 July 2007--The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Peter Akinola has manifested as a lone voice in the crusade against the attempt to re-write the scripture by some Anglicans in Europe and South America, with the admission of people who practise homosexuals as priests and even bishops in the church. This has caused a wide division within the church. However, next year, the once- in-10 years Lambeth Conference of all Anglican Bishops from all over the world will hold in August at the Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the estimated 78 million Anglicans world-wide Dr. Rowan Williams. The meeting will provide a platform to assess the impact of this division. Nigerian bishops, the largest in the communion, have threatened to boycott the meeting except an invitation is extended to Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, the bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), created by the Nigerian bishops, to cater for the interest of their members, who are opposed to the churches with homosexual priests in America. Akinola has written to the Lambeth Palace to protest the development; and in his office in Abuja recently, he spoke to DICKSON ADEYANJU on this issue and how much damage the same sex crisis has done to the Anglican Church, which broke away from the Catholic Church in the 16th century and became the official church of England since then....