Feuding Anglicans might pray apart

11 January 2016 - 10:22
By The Sunday Telegraph

The global Anglican Church faces "dire consequences" unless it enforces a traditionalist line on homosexuality at a crucial summit in Canterbury, England, this week, say leading clerics. Bishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt, convenor of Anglican primates in the "global south" - the bulk of the church's 80million members - said that unless the issue was resolved there would be "irreparable" splits, not just between countries, but even parishes.

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