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Article: After U.S. visit, Africa's top Anglican denounces Episcopal Church on gays
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- April 4, 2004
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The spokesman for bishops who claim leadership of a majority of
the world's Anglican Christians denounced the gay-rights policies of
America's Episcopal Church on Saturday, following a two-day caucus in
Atlanta with U.S. conservatives.
Archbishop Peter Akinola said the future of true Anglicanism in
the United States lies with conservative minority opposition groups
within the Episcopal Church who oppose gay marriage and the church's
approval of an openly gay bishop. The Episcopal Church is the U.S.
branch of the Anglican Communion.
Akinola also said in a telephone interview that unless conditions
change, he will not attend meetings alongside the leader of the