After celebrating the East African Revival on the opening evening of the conference, those attending GAFCON 2013 on Tuesday morning were presented with challenges facing the church around the world.
The day began with a Eucharist in Nairobi Cathedral where there was standing room only. Afterwards the 331 bishops, over a third of those in the Anglican Communion, gathered for a group photograph in which they gave the "One-way" sign.
In his chairman's address Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the challenge facing the church "is that the nations which were once the spiritual powerhouses of world wide mission have now become deeply secularised and even hostile to the Christian faith".
"What really rots the fabric of the Communion is the process by which weak churches are gradually taken captive by the surrounding culture," he said. Keep reading
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Photo: Andrew Gross, ACNA
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