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Thursday June 19, 2008
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Hardline church leaders have formally declared the end of the worldwide Anglican communion, saying they could no longer be associated with liberals who tolerate homosexual clergy.
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Monday December 24, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Catholic Church • Religion Trends:
A spokesman for the Catholic Church said that the figures for Mass attendance sounded “about right”, although he stressed that there were no precise statistics. But a representative of the Church of England said that Christian Research had seriously underestimated its churchgoing numbers.
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Sunday December 23, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Catholic Church • Religion Trends:
Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country’s dominant religious group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of England.
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Anglican / Episcopal Church • Rowan Williams:
The Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that the Christmas story of the Three Wise Men was nothing but a ‘legend’.
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Saturday November 24, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Catholic Church:
The Pope is understood to be considering ways to accommodate disaffected Anglicans who are thinking of joining the Catholic Church.
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A parallel national Anglican Church was launched yesterday amid charges by a leading theologial that the Anglican Church of Canada has been poisoned by liberalism and that is the real cause of the schism now underway.
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Thursday November 22, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
The Anglican Bishop of New Westminster says the division over homosexuality in the Canadian church is now “a full-blown schism” and a conservative Anglican faction has hinted at an announcement this week on the formation of a breakaway body.
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Wednesday September 26, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Homeopathy:
The Episcopal bishops of the United States, attempting to head off a schism over gay rights and biblical interpretation, yesterday promised to “exercise restraint” by not approving more gay bishops and not authorizing a formal ritual for blessing same-sex couples.
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Monday August 6, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Songs by late reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh — both devout Rastafarians — will be included in a new collection of Anglican church hymnals in Jamaica.
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Thursday March 29, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
The leader of a conservative breakaway Episcopal parish will face financial misconduct allegations in the Colorado Diocese judicial system, officials said Wednesday amid an escalating dispute over homosexuality and other issues.
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Monday March 26, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
The controversy at Colorado Springs’ Grace Episcopal Church and St. Stephen’s Parish is the latest in a tense dispute among Episcopalians and their fellow Anglicans worldwide over how they should interpret what the Bible says about sexuality and other issues.
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Thursday March 22, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Episcopalians across the country reacted today to news that Episcopal bishops appeared to be taking steps toward rejecting several demands made by top of the American church, steps that could push the two bodies toward a formal split.
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Monday February 26, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Bishop Ted Gulick of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky yesterday apologized to gay and lesbian church members for the “pain and alienation” they feel following his vote last year not to consent to the further ordination of homosexual bishops.
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Tuesday February 20, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Anglican leaders demanded Monday that the U.S. Episcopal Church unequivocally bar official prayers for gay couples and stop consecrating gay bishops to undo the damage North Americans have caused the Anglican family.
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Wednesday January 10, 2007
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Christianity:
The core issue for us is theological: the intellectual integrity of faith in the modern world. The American Episcopal Church no longer believes the historic, orthodox Christian faith common to all believers.
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Monday December 18, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
At least seven Virginia Episcopal parishes, opposed to the consecration of a gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions, have voted overwhelmingly to break from the US church in a dramatic demonstration of widening rifts within the denomination.
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Anglican / Episcopal Church • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:
Two of the most prominent and largest Episcopal parishes in Virginia voted overwhelmingly Sunday to leave The Episcopal Church and join fellow Anglican conservatives forming a rival denomination in the U.S.
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Tuesday July 4, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
More Dioceses Reject New Female Leader
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Sunday July 2, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Six conservative Episcopalian bishops opposed to the liberal drift in the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion are asking for a trial separation, a move hinting at an eventual divorce over irreconcilable differences, some analysts say.
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Wednesday June 21, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- In the final hours of a national church meeting, the top Episcopal leader is trying to preserve world Anglican unity after Episcopal delegates rejected an Anglican demand that they stop electing openly gay bishops for now.
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Monday June 19, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Episcopal Church leaders chose Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as their leader Sunday, making her the first woman to head any denomination in the Anglican Communion worldwide.
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Sunday June 11, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, has delivered a damning critique of the Anglican communion, claiming that it has fallen apart since he was succeeded by Rowan Williams.
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Sunday May 7, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Schism Is Averted As Church Elects Alabamian Bishop
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Wednesday February 15, 2006
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Episcopal Church's First Openly Gay Bishop Receiving Treatment for Alcoholism
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Wednesday September 21, 2005
Anglican / Episcopal Church:
Angry over other Anglican churches' tolerance of homosexuality, the Anglican Church of Nigeria has deleted from its Constitution all references to "the See of Canterbury," the British "mother" church that links Anglican churches worldwide into a global communion.
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