Thursday, January 27, 2011

DUBLIN: ABC to announce new Relief Alliance to Deflect Theological Crisis

DUBLIN: Rowan Williams will announce new Relief Alliance to Deflect Theological Crisis in the Anglican Communion

By David W. Virtue in Dublin
www.virtueonline.org
January 26, 2011

At a meeting of global archbishops in Dublin, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams is expected to announce the formation of a new social activist body - A Global Anglican Relief and Development Alliance - in a last ditch effort to deflect the Anglican Communion away from the moral and theological crisis sweeping the communion playing up poverty issues instead.

A dozen orthodox Anglican Primates have absented themselves from a Primates' meeting here in Dublin because of the theological and moral innovations of The Episcopal Church.

For the past year, since the conclusion of the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion Office have worked together to move forward the recommendation for the establishment of a new way for Anglicans to globally work together for relief and development.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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