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Article: Africa's Anglican archbishops reject donations from churches that support gay unions.(World Notes)(Episcopal Church of the United States of America)(Brief Article)
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- June 20, 2004
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NAIROBI -- Africa's Anglican archbishops have vowed never to receive donations from western churches which support the ordination of gay priests. "We do not want any money from the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. This is not rhetoric. It is not a matter of a joke. We mean what we say," the chairman of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa, Nigeria's Archbishop Peter Akinola said, as the other clergymen nodded in affirmation.
Akinola was addressing a news conference in Kenya's capital Nairobi, on behalf of the continent's 12 archbishops. The conference followed a two-day meeting to review the African bishops' stand on homosexuality. Five ...