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AFRICANS WILL LEAVE ANGLICAN COMMUNION SAYS CHURCH SOCIETY LEADER By David W. Virtue Come October the Africans will leave the Anglican Communion following the conclusion of the Lambeth-Eames Commission, because they think the report will be little more than a "fudge", says David Phillips, General Secretary, Church Society. Writing in Anglican Mainstream, the online voice of orthodoxy in the Church of England, Phillips said, "There is no doubt that the Africans in particular do not really understand the western church. They do not understand they way it plays politics in bodies such as the General Synod or the Primates meetings....

<p>NAIROBI, Kenya — The shock waves of last year's ordination of an openly homosexual bishop in the United States reverberated in Kenya yesterday, as Anglican leaders from across Africa began meeting to discuss whether to keep accepting crucial funding from the U.S. Episcopalian Church.</p>

African Primates in make-or-break summit Number: 5712 Date: April 8, Africa’s continuing place in the Anglican Communion will come under sharp scrutiny next week as the leaders of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa [CAPA] meet in Nairobi. The summit, running from April 14-16, will review the future of CAPA in light of the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in the USA. The 12 African Primates and the Bishop of Egypt will be joined by the Archbishops of Southeast Asia, South America, the West Indies, the Philippines, Pakistan, and New Guinea along with other Anglican...

GUATEMALA DISASSOCIATES ITSELF FROM IARCA AND ROBINSON CONSECRATION Statement of the Episcopal Church of Guatemala on the participation of the Central American Primate in Gene Robinson's consecration THE CASE HISTORY The Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) elected the Rt Revd Gene Robinson as Bishop Coadjutor by a legal canonical process according to the law and constitutions of ECUSA. The aforementioned canonical legislation stipulates that to be consecrated as a bishop, it is required that the majority of diocesan bishops and their respective diocesan committees give their consent. When there is...

Anglican Leaders Back Ban on Gay Clergy By RICHARD N. OSTLING AP Religion Writer NEW YORK (AP)--Leaders of Anglican churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America joined Friday to endorse a new protest group that is trying to unite Episcopalians in the United States who oppose gay clergy. The statement came from the top officials (called ``primates'') of 13 denominations, which together claim more than half of the 77 million Anglicans worldwide. Their message spurns the leaders and policies of the Episcopal Church, which is the U.S. branch of the international Anglican Communion. The action gives the new U.S. conservative...

The Most Reverend Frank Tracy Griswold Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the USA 815 Second Avenue New York, NY 10017 USA 8th January 2004 Dear +Frank, This comes with a prayerful greeting from the Southern Cone in Jesus’ name. As you can see from the attached statement, the decision of ECUSA to consecrate Gene Robinson, a person sexually active outside marriage, and to declare by resolution that same-sex blessings are "in bounds," has left us no choice but to recognize the situation which you have created. That is one of a profound impairment of communion. Our deep sadness...

Huge Weapons Shipment Seized At Port PORTLAND - Federal officials announced late Wednesday the seizure of possibly the largest shipment of weapons ever found in the northwest from Terminal Six at the Port of Portland. Officials with the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and extension of the Department of Homeland Security said inspectors seized more than 700 handguns, 900 magazines, and 450 shotguns from a container at the port on June 28. The CBP said the shipment was bound for Central America, and originated in the People's Republic of China. Authorities say they learned of the...

CHILE-- A PASTORAL LETTER Pastoral Letter of the Diocesan Bishop to the Parishes and Missions of the IACH Dear brothers and sisters in Christ: The notice of the consecration of Gene Robinson, a practicing homosexual as Bishop Coadjutor of the DIocese of New Hampshire, USA; has caused a great deal of pain and deception. This has brought us to the point of breaking communion with this diocese as we consider this consecration contrary to the Bible and the practice of traditional Anglican theology. The Diocese of Chile does not recognize to Gene Robinson as an Anglican bishop. Our Anglican Province...

Primates break with Church over homosexuality By Chris Hastings and Elizabeth Day (Filed: 02/11/2003) Twenty Anglican primates who oppose the ordination of homosexuals will announce today that they have split from their North American counterparts. The primates will make public their decision to break away from the Episcopal Church of the USA if, as expected, the American Church consecrates Canon Gene Robinson, a practising homosexual, as Bishop of New Hampshire today. In the statement, the primates will say that continued communion with the New Hampshire diocese and those who support the appointment, including the presiding Episcopalian archbishop, Frank Griswold, is...

WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida and Middle East terrorists are operating near Ecuador's borders with Peru and Colombia, and Ecuador needs U.S. help to combat them, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Thursday. "We have got in the tri-border area a bit of a problem with al-Qaida itself and some Hezbollah elements," he told the House Appropriations' foreign operations subcommittee. "We do need cooperation." In addition, U.S. efforts to help Colombia combat drug traffickers -- and perhaps insurgents -- might hurt Ecuador if the traffickers and rebels seek to escape there, he said. President Bush's request for $27 billion in...

BOSTON -- The FBI has issued an alert, asking the public to be on the lookout for four Middle Eastern men the agency wants for questioning on terrorist matters and they may be in New England. The FBI in Portland, Maine has alerted State Police that a witness may have seen two men who resembled the wanted men in that area. The witness spotted them in Naples, Maine, just northwest of Portland, last Sunday around 4 p.m. They were heading south on Route 302. The witness told police the two men were driving a late-model, slate-gray BMW with Massachusetts plates....

Latin America’s fastest-growing faith resents terror allegations from U.S. By Michele Salcedo Staff Writer September 1, 2003 PORLAMAR, MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela -- Margariteños cannot figure out how their picturesque island off the coast of Venezuela became a battleground in the war on terrorism. No bomb ever exploded here, no shot fired. But the Bush administration has the island, and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, under scrutiny as a place where terrorists might live, raise money or move contraband. "The television commentators are distorting information," said Sulenma Reyes, who, like other villagers of El Magüey, learned from television...

The ambiguous - not to say complicit - attitude of the Lula da Silva administration vis-a-vis the recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents by Fidel Castro’s tyrannical government has had a profound impact in the United States. Castro imprisoned 75 opponents and had three men who tried to flee the island executed by firing squad. The Workers’ Party (PT) government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva once again displayed its duplicity and ideological compromise with leftist and dictatorial regimes. It also made clear its unstated but real desire to work for a politico-social destabilization of Latin America, which it sees as...