Sunday, August 29, 2010

ENTEBBE: Two African Anglican Provinces Say Abandoning US Church is "Wrong"

ENTEBBE: Two African Anglican Provinces Say Abandoning US Episcopal Church is "Wrong"
Central Africa and Southern Africa reject ACNA's legitimacy

By David W. Virtue in Entebbe
www.virtueonline.org
August 29, 2010

Two African Anglican Provinces - Central Africa and Southern Africa - say they will not go along with CAPA's call to disassociate itself from the Episcopal Church for its actions in consecrating a non-celibate homosexual and a lesbian to the episcopacy.

In a letter VOL has obtained, the two provinces say that notwithstanding, the impression being created at the Conference that all Provinces in Africa are of one mind to abandon our relationship with TEC, [we believe this] is wrong. "Painful as the action is it should not become the presenting issue to lead to the break-up up of our legacy and this gift of God - the worldwide Anglican Communion."

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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