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Article: Boycott underscores Anglican rift.(WORLD)(Lambeth Conference)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- July 17, 2008
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Byline: Mark Rice-Oxley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
London -- The deep fractures in the 80-million-strong Anglican church were laid bare Wednesday as the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams opened a once-a-decade summit with a quarter of bishops boycotting the event because of a festering row over sexuality and liberal interpretation of Scripture.
Some 230 of 880 Anglican bishops, most of them from Africa and conservative American and Australian parishes are cold-shouldering the Lambeth Conference because they disagree fundamentally with Archbishop Williams and other liberal church leaders on the place of homosexuals in the life ...