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Anglican bishops gather amid schism over homosexuality

CANTERBURY, England -- The world's Anglican bishops turned Saturday to the enormous task at the heart of their once-a-decade summit: trying to keep the Anglican family from breaking apart over the Bible and homosexuality.

With its private prayer phase over, the business of the Lambeth Conference begins, but it is hobbled by a boycott: about one- quarter of the invited bishops -- mostly theological conservatives from Africa -- are not attending.

The 650 bishops who are here include a mix of traditionalists, moderates and liberals, all with divergent ideas about what Anglicans should believe and how their fellowship should operate.

The conference's opening public worship is set for today in ...

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