Anglican leaders prepare for showdown
They propose new U.S. church structure and new oversight
By RICHARD VARA
Houston Chronicle

Conservative leaders of the Anglican Communion in Africa and Asia proposed Friday that a new church structure be established in the United States.

It would be for dioceses and parishes that are unhappy with the Episcopal Church and its consecration of an openly gay bishop.

"The time has now come to take initial steps towards the formation of what will be recognized as a separate ecclesiastical structure of the Anglican Communion in the USA," the foreign bishops said at the end of a four-day meeting in Kigali, Rwanda. "We believe that we would be failing in our apostolic witness if we do not make this provision for those who hold firmly to a commitment to historic Anglican faith." the rest

Traditionalists plan parallel anti-homosexual Church
By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
(Filed: 23/09/2006)

Conservative Anglican leaders prepared for a formal split in the worldwide Church yesterday by announcing plans to create a parallel body for anti-gay dioceses in America.

In a move that will alarm the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, a powerful group of 20 primates said that "the time has now come" to begin forming "a separate ecclesiastical structure".

The statement by the Global South leaders, who are mainly from Africa and Asia and who represent about a third of active Anglicans in the 70 million-strong Communion, followed a four-day summit in Rwanda. the rest