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While huge segments of Christendom go apostate by baptizing practicing homosexuality as divinely blessed, Christianity based upon the Bible as divine revelation not to be tampered with is flourishing in Africa.

LONDON, February 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com, with files from VirtueOnline) - As long as a homosexual partnership is "faithful and lifelong," it presents only the same ethical questions as a natural marriage, wrote the head of the Church of England in a series of letters, dating from 2000 and 2001, that have only just been made public. The London Times revealed this weekend that Dr. Rowan Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, made the statements in a series of letters to Deborah Pitt, a psychiatrist and evangelical Christian living in his former archdiocese in South Wales, while Williams was still the...

Dr Akinola, the Primate of Nigeria and a leader of traditionalists worldwide, said the alleged offences of bestiality in south London showed how "spiritual degradation" was destroying the country's soul. He also claimed the advent of civil partnerships for homosexual couples showed that politicians are "upturning the natural order" and doing away with God and family life. Dr Akinola referred to the alleged farmyard sex crimes in an important speech to the General Synod of the Church of Nigeria, the 18 million-strong church's governing body, last month. He said: "As a church we cannot but continue to decry the disturbing...

CANTERBURY, England -- Gene Robinson's bodyguard didn't have to worry this time. The 40-year-old man who rushed over to Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the worldwide Anglican church, just wanted to shake his hand. "Thank you for bringing the church into the 21st century, for moving things forward," said Martin MacCiarrain, a government employee. The bodyguard, a retired policeman who trails the American bishop because of death threats, eased back. On Sunday during a sermon Robinson delivered in London, a long-haired man had suddenly leapt up screaming at the American bishop: "Repent! Repent!" Since Robinson, 61, was consecrated...

Hardline Church leaders have formally declared the end of the worldwide Anglican Communion, saying they can no longer be associated with liberals who tolerate homosexual clergy. The traditionalists dealt a serious blow to Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, by claiming that he can no longer hold the Church together. They warned that the Church was gripped by its most serious crisis since the Reformation. It could only be saved by the repentance of the Americans who triggered the row by ordaining a homosexual bishop, the Rt Rev Gene Robinson, five years ago. The formal pronouncement of the schism...

Middle East Archbishop Sounds Negative Note on GAFCON. Akinola Replies The President Bishop of the Middle East the Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Anis has written to the Primate of Nigeria Archbishop Peter Akinola asking him to reconsider the "timing and venue" of the announced GAFCON meeting of orthodox Anglicans in the Holy Land in June 2008 just a month before the Lambeth Conference meets in Canterbury. In correspondence obtained by VOL, Archbishop Mouneer wrote saying he wanted to share his thoughts on the proposed GAFCON meeting. "It will be a great joy for the Liberals if the conservatives boycott the...

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE- A.D 2007 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life - John 3:16 Christmas is here again despite all covert and overt attempts to wish it away. The celebration in remembrance of the love of God in giving the Saviour to the world is so important, it cannot be wished away. Though few human beings rejoiced at the birth of the baby Jesus, the Gospels tell about multitudes rejoicing in the heavens, about a bright star leading wise men to worship the...

Main Entry: pri'mate Etymology: Middle English primat, from Old French, from Medieval Latin primat-, primas archbishop, from Latin, leader, from primus Date: 13th century 1 often capitalized : a bishop who has precedence in a province, group of provinces, or a nation2 archaic : one first in authority or rank : LEADER 3 [New Latin Primates, from Latin, plural of primat-, primas] : any of an order (Primates) of mammals comprising humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers) -pri'mate-ship \-*ship\ noun --pri-ma'tial \pr*-*m*-sh*l\ adjective

ABUJA, Nigeria, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Peter Akinola, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, released a statement indicating that traditional conservative Anglicans may have to part ways with the liberal American Church over the issue of homosexuality. Referring to the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church in Canada's move to accept same-sex "marriage," he stated, as reported in the Christian Post, "Their intention is clear; they have chosen to walk away from the biblically-based path we once all walked together."  Clearly indicating that faithful conservative Anglicans cannot accept a position that directly contradicts the...

The Archbishop of the largest Province in the Anglican Communion has accused "The Church Times", the world's leading independent liberal Anglican weekly newspaper of racism over accusations that CANA Bishop Martyn Minns ghostwrote an article for the Most Rev. Peter Akinola, Primate of Nigeria. In a blistering letter to the Church Times, the Venerable AkinTunde Popoola, Director of Communications for the Church of Nigeria, told U.K. editors that an article by Pat Ashworth entitled "Software Suggests Minns Rewrote Akinola's Letter" was very "insulting" and "racist" inferring that the Primate of All Nigeria is being dictated to because he sought help...

The Rev. Felix Anyasor was a happy man this week. So was his friend and colleague the Rev. Simon Omoke. The Nigerian-born Houston ministers had just returned from Virginia, where they celebrated the installation by Peter Akinola of a “missionary bishop” to lead U.S. churches that have broken from the Episcopal Church because of disagreements over homosexuality. “It was like the first Christian gathering at Antioch,” Anyasor said of the installation of the former Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns as bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America. “When (Antioch) happened, people from all over the world came. The spirit...

Nigerian Anglican Installs U.S. Bishop May 6, 2007 - 8:34am WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) - A powerful Anglican leader from Nigeria installed a bishop Saturday to lead the conservative U.S. parish network he created, despite a last-minute plea from the head of the Anglican Communion that he cancel his visit. Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria was already in the United States when a spokesman for Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams revealed Friday that Williams had tried to intercede. The installation ceremony, held at a nondenominational chapel, went ahead as planned. Bishop Martyn Minns, a former Episcopal clergyman, was given full leadership...

Orthodox Anglicans Take 'First Step' Away from Episcopal Church http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070507/27269_Orthodox_Anglicans_Take_'First_Step'_Away_from_Episcopal_Church.htm http://tinyurl.com/ywlc4m By Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter Mon, May. 07 2007 06:43 AM ET WOODBRIDGE, Va. – The installation of a local minister who recently broke with the Episcopal Church and will now oversee other breakaway congregations was a unique and historic event and one that the Nigerian Anglican leader called "just the first step." "The journey ahead is long, the road ... rough, rugged," said Archbishop Peter J. Akinola of the Church of Nigeria, who defied top church leaders on Saturday and installed the Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns as...

The Rev. Martyn Minns became an Episcopal priest in the late 1970s. As the Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, priest-in-charge at Truro Church, his is one of several large, historic Episcopal congregations in Northern Virginia that have split from the Diocese of Virginia and The Episcopal Church. A Brit by birth he has spent most of his adult life in North America. He is a former Mobil Oil executive. His alliance with the Most Rev. Peter Akinola, Primate of the fast growing Anglican Province of Nigeria has made him an international power player in the Anglican Communion. This weekend he will...

Somebody else apparently doesn't want Peter Akinola to cross the pond: Lambeth Palace today confirmed the Archbishop of Canterbury has written to the African Primate asking him to cancel his trip to Virginia to carry out the service. A spokesman for Dr Rowan Williams confirmed a letter had been sent to the Archbishop of Nigeria, while it has also been reported that the Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has also appealed to Bishop Akinola not to carry out the installation at Hylton Memorial Chapel in Woodbridge, Virginia. Thanks to wannabe. But unlike Dr. Williams, Bob Duncan can see the...

I am going to give it a try. There are a slew of people from all over here. I bumped into Benjamin Kwashi and his wife Gloria in the lobby on the way in. We had about a five minute visit. Loved seeing the text messages from their children. I asked about the climate in Nigeria and no, it is still not safe for Bishop Kwashi. An important reminder of the cost of following the gospel. I had a warm greeting from Bishop David Bena and thought about the sheer courage of the man. Many forget that he was the...

The issue of homosexuality and the Anglican Communion must be resolved before the 2008 Lambeth Conference, if the Church of Nigeria is to participate, according to Archbishop Peter Akinola. In a Jan. 14 interview with the Guardian newspaper of Lagos, Archbishop Akinola, the primate of the Communion’s largest province, said sending more than 100 Nigerian bishops to Lambeth would not be an act of prudent stewardship, if the conference was simply going to be an expensive episcopal jamboree. “A Lambeth Conference that will not be able to guide the church in a way that the church will embrace” and “comply”...

TIME 100: AKINOLA MAKES TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 LIST The People who shape our world Archbishop Peter Akinola The Strength of a Lion By RICK WARREN May 1, 2006 Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola captured headlines last year for leading the worldwide revolt of evangelical Anglicans against the ordination of gay bishops in the U.S. by the Episcopal Church. But to caricature his ministry with that one issue would severely underestimate his importance. Akinola personifies the epochal change in the Christian church, namely that the leadership, influence, growth and center of gravity in Christianity is shifting from the northern hemisphere...

Dear Friends:A number of you have asked about the editorial “Gospel of Intolerance” that appeared in the Washington Post last Sunday, February 26. It was written by John Chane, Bishop of Washington, and was a very pointed attack on the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Archbishop Akinola, and, by implication, those in this country who align themselves with him.While there are a number of related points raised in the editorial the underlying issue is the proposed legislation in Nigeria with regard to Same-Sex Marriage. If enacted, this legislation would include the possibility of a jail sentence for those who...

Peter Akinola, Anglican Primate of Nigeria and President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, comments on the recent attacks by Muslims against Christians in that country.  From all indications, it is very clear now that the sacrifices of the Christians in this country for peaceful co-existence with people of other faiths has been sadly misunderstood to be weakness We have for a long time now watched helplessly the killing, maiming and destruction of Christians and their property by Muslim fanatics and fundamentalists at the slightest or no provocation at all. We are not unaware of the fact that these religious...

Archbishop Robin Eames, Primate of Ireland, said Wednesday that he hoped Archbishop Peter Akinola, Primate of Nigeria, would reconsider recent actions which Eames said could damage efforts to keep the Anglican Communion intact. Eames made his comments during a question and answer period following the second of two lectures he presented at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria , Va. The Communion's senior primate, Eames chaired the Lambeth Commission, a group formed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to help the Communion through a controversy over the role of gay men and lesbians in the Church. Akinola, who heads...

As the argument over human sexuality continues to boil over within the worldwide Anglican Communion, a respected figure in the Episcopal Church USA – which has been attacked for the affirmative position of some of its members towards lesbian and gay people in ministry – has forcefully rebutted his Church’s prime Nigerian critic. Responding to comments by Archbishop Peter Akinola, the Bishop of Washington DC, the Rt Rev John B. Chane, writing in his September diocesan letter, declares: “One thing I can say about the American Church and her bishops is that we take very seriously the teachings of Jesus.”...

[All, CT's requirement for excerpting, and FR's excerpting rules, don't allow me to provide enough to give you any sense of this excellent article. --sionnsar] Philip Jenkins, in his groundbreaking The Next Christendom, wrote that a "global perspective should make us think carefully before asserting 'what Christians believe' or 'how the church is changing.' All too often [such statements] refer only to what that ever-shrinking remnant of Western Christians and Catholics believe. Such assertions are outrageous today. … The era of Western Christianity has passed within our lifetimes, and the day of Southern Christianity is dawning."In the Anglican Communion, the...

Stephen Noll: Is Peter Akinola Talking Straight? My lectionary reading this past week brought me the story of David and Bathsheba and the prophet Nathan. As I read the recent Statement of Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria (www.anglican-nig.org/prmtstmt_civilprtship.htm) and reviewed that of the House of Bishops of the Church of England (www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr5605.html), I could not help but hear the accusing voice of Nathan the prophet, saying “You are the men!” It is so fashionable in some liberal church circles to claim prophetic inspiration that I suspect it is difficult for the same folks to hear a true prophet when he...

Archbishop Akinola (Nigeria) Confronts Archbishop Ndungane (South Africa) Over Remarks on Homosexuality September 23, 2003 Source: ALL AFRICA NEWS AGENCY [ACNS source: All Africa News Agency] The Archbishop of the Church of Nigeria, the Most Revd Peter J. Akinola, has written a strong-worded letter to his southern Africa counterpart, Archbishop Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town, expressing deep criticism over the stand taken by Archbishop Ndungane on the controversial issue of gay ordination within the Anglican Church… Below is the full text of Archbishop Akinola's letter, released yesterday: A MESSAGE TO ARCHBISHOP NDUNGANE "My attention has just been drawn to...

ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE ACNS 3597 | KENYA | 1 OCTOBER 2003 Peter Akinola elected new CAPA Chairman [ACNS source: Churches in the Anglican Provinces of Africa] The Most Revd Peter Jasper Akinola is the new Chairman for the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA). Archbishop Akinola, who is the Primate of Nigeria, was elected unanimously during the ninth session of the council in Nairobi last week. The Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa is a continental body that brings together all the 12 Provinces in Africa and the Diocese of Egypt, which falls under the Province of Jerusalem...

ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE ACNS 3671 | NIGERIA | 13 NOVEMBER 2003 Archbishop Akinola calls for prayer as he assumes new role by Matthew Davies The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Most Revd Peter Jasper Akinola, was elected last night (Wednesday 12 November) as the head of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), an ecumenical umbrella organisation based in Kaduna. The decision was announced at the meeting of CAN's 6th General Assembly in Abuja. In his initial reaction to his election as the CAN President, Archbishop Akinola called on all Christian people to pray for him...

Gay bishop: Severance of ties with US Anglicans final — AKINOLA By Sam Eyoboka Wednesday, November 19, 2003 LAGOS — THE decision of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) to severe relationship with its American counterpart to protest the recent consecration of Canon Gene Robinson, a confessed homosexual, as bishop of New Hampshire, is irrevocable as it has received the official stamp of the House of Bishops. The primate of the Nigerian Church, the Most Reverend Peter Jasper Akinola, who is the arrowhead of worldwide condemnation of the consecration had announced the decision to severe relationship, saying the modalities will...

Statement on Windsor Report From Nigeria's Primate, Archbishop Peter Akinola: Released on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 I welcome the sincerity and hard work of those who have prepared 'The Windsor Report 2004'. After an initial reading it is clear to me that the report falls far short of the prescription needed for this current crisis. It fails to confront the reality that a small, economically privileged group of people has sought to subvert the Christian faith and impose their new and false doctrine on the wider community of faithful believers. We have watched in sadness as sisters and brothers who...

ABEOKUTO, Nigeria (1/19/2005)--Two bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church and the archbishop of the Anglican Province of America an independent Anglican communion, were invited recently by the Primate of Nigeria the Most Rev. Peter Akinola to engage in talks to deepen relationships between the Anglican entities. These talks come at a time when the Anglican Church in Nigeria is in impaired communion with the Episcopal Church USA and its Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold over the consecration of an openly homoerotic bishop to the episcopacy. Both REC bishops went with the blessing of their Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Leonard Riches....

Main Entry: pri'mate Pronunciation: *pr*-*m*t or esp for 1 -m*t Function: noun Etymology: Middle English primat, from Old French, from Medieval Latin primat-, primas archbishop, from Latin, leader, from primus Date: 13th century 1 often capitalized : a bishop who has precedence in a province, group of provinces, or a nation2 archaic : one first in authority or rank : LEADER 3 [New Latin Primates, from Latin, plural of primat-, primas] : any of an order (Primates) of mammals comprising humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers) -pri'mate-ship \-*ship\ noun --pri-ma'tial \pr*-*m*-sh*l\ adjective A letter from...

From the Primate of all Nigeria, Archbishop Peter J. Akinola:Greetings in the name of our risen Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!It has been my privilege to meet Nigerian Anglicans in places across America including Washington D.C., New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis and Chicago. I have witnessed your faithfulness and seen what a blessing you are, both to those who share our love for the Lord Jesus and also those who have yet to hear the good news of His love. I have also become aware of the challenging circumstances in which many of you find yourselves...

The Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Rev. Peter Akinola believes there are Scriptures that the church must adhere to and follow if it is to be obedient to the 'faith once delivered to the saints.' In Nottingham, England recently, the archbishop gave VirtueOnline two pages of Scriptural texts and comments that he believes are vital and crucial if theological integrity is to be maintained in the Anglican Communion if we are continue to walk together. What does God Say about Love and Obedience? John 14: 15,21-24 "If you love me you will obey what I command...Whoever has my commands and...

The following statement has been put out by Archbishop Peter Akinola in response to the English House of Bishops response to Civil Partnerships. THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (Anglican Communion) THE MOST REV. PETER J. AKINOLA, D.D. Archbishop, Metropolitan and Primate of All Nigeria. A Statement on the Church of England response to Civil Partnerships by the Primate of All Nigeria I read with utter dismay the pastoral statement recently issued by the Church of England House of Bishops with regard to the Civil Partnership Act scheduled to come into force on 5 December 2005. While I was pleased to note...

THE most powerful Anglican leader outside Britain has called for the Church of England to be suspended from the worldwide Anglican Communion over its backing for civil partnerships. Last week English bishops issued a pastoral statement saying that they would allow their gay clergy to register their civil partnerships under the new act which comes into force this December but they would be required to abstain from sex. Peter Akinola the Archbishop of Nigeria, the largest Anglican province in the world, ridiculed the policy by asking the Church of England bishops if they were intending to place cameras in the...

Main Entry: pri'mate Etymology: Middle English primat, from Old French, from Medieval Latin primat-, primas archbishop, from Latin, leader, from primus Date: 13th century 1 often capitalized : a bishop who has precedence in a province, group of provinces, or a nation2 archaic : one first in authority or rank : LEADER 3 [New Latin Primates, from Latin, plural of primat-, primas] : any of an order (Primates) of mammals comprising humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers) -pri'mate-ship \-*ship\ noun --pri-ma'tial \pr*-*m*-sh*l\ adjective ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Archbishop Peter Akinola, leader of the growing and...

RECENT DIVISIONS in the Anglican Communion over sexuality have prompted various interpretations of the Church of Nigeria’s position, given the outspokenness of its Primate, the Most Revd Peter Akinola. Having served in parishes in both Nigeria and England, I believe I am qualified to comment.Few critics of Archbishop Akinola know about the friendship that existed between him and the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA), the Most Revd Frank Griswold, before the outbreak of this crisis. If the Bishop and the Archbishop are no longer in communion or in impaired communion, the issue at stake...

Reading the Letters section of Episcopal Life is always an instructive experience.  For example, who says Episcopal liberals never engage on an intellectual level?  Here, one Max Coolidge-Gillmor of Orland, Maine effectively employs the celebrated argument known as the reductio ad littlebrotherum, popularly referred to as "I Know You Are But What Am I?"In the news on Feb. 24, I heard: "The Episcopal Church caused the split when they confirmed the election of Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003." Conservatives have framed this issue and are making it sound as if the national church did something radical and unorthodox....

"By 2025, 50 percent of the Christian populations (of the world) will be in Africa and Latin America, and another 17 percent in Asia." Phillips Jenkins in "The Next Christianity" Dear Brothers and Sisters, KOTA KINABALU, SABAH: The saints and faithful in Sabah are not remotely interested in sodomy. It is dividing the Anglican Communion, and tragically it IS affecting the aggressive growth of the Anglican churches here in Malaysia whose clergy are reaching out evangelistically to indigenous tribal people, Chinese, and to Indonesians that flock across their border in search of work. ... But the silver lining is that...

[In case you have read the initial letter already, I have highlighted the beginning of ++Akinola's note in red so you can jump down to it. --sionnsar] Well, ECUSA has withdrawn our representatives from the ACC. I can’t wait until that meeting. Archbishop Akinola has also chimed in on the June meeting.ENS release:Wednesday, April 13, 2005From Executive Council: A letter to Bishop John PatersonENS 041305-1[ENS] – A letter to the Rt. Rev. John C. Paterson, Chair of the Anglican Consultative Council, from the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold and the Very Rev. George L. W. Werner on behalf of the...

To put it mildly, Peter Akinola is unimpressed by ECUSA's response to the Newry Anglican primates meeting.  For Akinola, the bottom line is that ECUSA still doesn't get it:While the statement issued by ECUSA’s House of Bishops expressed a desire to remain in the life and mission of the Anglican Communion, I was disappointed that the only regret offered was for their failure to consult and the effect of their actions instead of an admission that what they have done has offended God and His Church. As was pointed out in the Primates Communiqué issued in February ‘the underlying reality...

Based in Europe for almost a millennium, Christianity has spread so widely around the world that its geographical centre has crossed into Africa and is now located near Timbuktu in mainly Muslim Mali, researchers say. By the end of this century, this "centre of gravity" -- the point on the globe at which the numbers of Christians living to the north, south, east and west are equal -- will have moved even further south to Africa's most populous state, Nigeria. Bishops of the Anglican Communion, the world denomination built around the Church of England, could be forgiven for thinking at...

Nairobi - Conservative Anglican bishops on Friday demanded that the US branch of the church repent for ordaining an openly gay bishop and reverse the action ahead of next month's worldwide meeting of congregational leaders in Northern Ireland. Nigerian primate Peter Akinola, a spokesperson for Anglican bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America who met here this week, said the US Episcopal Church must "repent" for ordaining a homosexual, Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire in November 2003. "America must repent, they must put a stop to that practice," Akinola told reporters here. "If God says (homosexuality) is an...

A major battle is looming, if it is not already underway, between the two most powerful men in the Anglican Communion - the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams and the Archbishop of Nigeria Peter Akinola. The two men are light years apart on most major issues ranging from understanding the nature of the faith, ecclesiology, sexuality issues, crossing jurisdictional boundaries and the role of the Anglican Consultative Council. The skirmishing and shots fired on both sides has been going on for several months now, but the guns are growing bigger and louder and there are every indication that it...

PIPERSVILLE, Pa. (11/4/2004)--The Reformed Episcopal Church has entered into a process to establish a formal relationship with the Anglican Province of Nigeria at the request of African Primate Peter Akinola, the head of the 18-million strong province of the Anglican Communion. Presiding Bishop the Rt. Rev. Leonard W. Riches announced word of the talks between the two leaders at the 124th Council of the REC's Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic yesterday, saying that he had been personally invited to meet with the Nigerian Primate in Houston last month and at his recommendation established a commission which will meet twice...

The head of the largest Anglican church in Africa reacted with fury to the Windsor report yesterday, severely denting hopes that its proposals would produce a way forward in the church's row about homosexuality. Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, who has said that homosexuals are lower than beasts, said the report's strictures about some clergy's use of language were patronising and unbalanced. In an angry statement, the archbishop, who left a meeting of Anglican primates in London early to return home yesterday, said: "We have been asked to express regret for our actions and affirm our desire to remain in...

The gay bishop at the heart of the Anglican Communion crisis has told the BBC he regrets the pain caused by his consecration but he will not resign. Gene Robinson was responding to a report which called on the American Church to apologise for consecrating him last November as a bishop. A senior Nigerian Anglican leader has condemned the report as unbalanced. Archbishop Peter Akinola accused liberals of being "hell bent" on destroying the Anglican communion. Gene Robinson welcomed what he called a "remarkable report" and he said he and his diocese accepted its call for an expression of regret....

The first African review of the Windsor Report is in and it is not good: A leader of African Anglicans who have been outraged by the appointment of a gay bishop in the United States blasted a church report on the dispute, saying Tuesday that it should have pushed for U.S. Episcopalians to repent. Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, in a statement released in London, said it was the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Canadian diocese of New Westminster that pushed the worldwide Anglican Communion "to the breaking point." Apparently, if you punch the Nigerian Primate in the nose, he...

Examples: Bush forgets he owns a tree-growing company. Kerry again inflates job-loss figures. October 9, 2004 Modified: October 9, 2004 Summary Both candidates played loose with the facts at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis Oct. 8. Bush claimed Kerry's health-care plan would lead to rationing and "ruin the quality of health care in America," a claim unsupported by neutral experts. Kerry claimed the Bush administration had forced the Army Chief of Staff to retire for pushing to send more troops to Iraq, but in fact he retired on schedule. We offer a sampler of the dubious and sometimes...

One of the highest ranking officials in the worldwide Anglican Church is traveling around the United States. He is exploring the possibility of setting up churches for members who strongly disagree with the American church's decision to appoint a homosexual bishop. The decision one year ago by the American Episcopalian Church to elevate an openly gay priest, Gene Robinson, to the position of bishop of the northeastern state of New Hampshire has upset many in the church. Opponents of the decision say it violates historic doctrine. Now Peter Akinola, the archbishop of Nigeria, may offer an alternative. "I am here...