Thursday, January 24, 2008

Canada Anglicans can't halt conservative defections
Wed 23 Jan 2008
By Randall Palmer

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The head of the Anglican church has made it clear he is powerless to stop conservative Canadian and U.S. congregations, upset with their national churches' positions on homosexuality, from leaving and affiliating with orthodox branches in Latin America and Africa.

It was a frank admission by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, of the limits of his power, even though he is opposed to cross-border ecclesiastical moves.

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