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Article: After U.S. visit, Africa's top Anglican leader denounces Episcopal Church on gays
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- April 3, 2004
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RICHARD N. OSTLING, AP Religion Writer
AP Worldstream
04-03-2004
Dateline: NEW YORK
The spokesman for bishops who claim leadership of a majority of the world's Anglican Christians denounced the gay policies of America's Episcopal Church on Saturday, following a two-day caucus in Atlanta with U.S. conservatives.
Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria said in a phone interview that the future hope of true Anglicanism in the United States now lies with the conservative minority opposition groups within the Episcopal Church.
He also said unless conditions change, he cannot attend future meetings alongside the leader of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, or attend the 2008 meeting ...