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Dialogue, compromise highlight Communion's Lambeth Conference

Anglicans take strong stand against poverty

Nearly every Lambeth Conference has had a hot button issue. In 1948, bishops were divided over what to do with the bishop of Hong Kong's decision two years earlier to ordain the first woman priest, Florence Li Tim Oi. In 1998, they were divided anew over women bishops. Yet, these and other conferences were able to ride out these storms and tensions, and Anglicanism survived. This year was no exception.

"Is this the end of the Anglican Communion?" a newspaper headline read at the start of this year's conference held July 16 to Aug.3 in Canterbury, England. After all, more than 250, or one out of four, bishops decided to boycott it to protest the ...

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