Word: akinola
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...Anglican alignment. However overambitious those dreams may be, momentum favors the conservatives. No one knows precisely how issues will be decided at the closed-door meeting; but handicappers number the conservative bloc at 20 to 25 of the 38 primates. Until the last few weeks, Nigeria's Archbishop Peter Akinola had threatened to lead like-minded churches out of the Communion if it were too lenient on the U.S. But he apparently no longer feels the need. "We are not breaking away," Akinola told TIME. "It is the heretics who will leave the church; we will send them away...
...years to work out." In the diocese of Oxford, 80 members of the clergy begged Harries to withdraw John's appointment. Nationwide, eight English bishops publicly endorsed the gay bishop-elect while nine opposed, including two former challengers to Williams for the top Canterbury job. In Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, who leads 17.5 million Anglicans and is a strong critic of homosexuality, told the BBC: "We would sever relationships with anybody, anywhere, anyone who strays over the boundaries." Archbishops in the West Indies and South America have added their protests, and in Sydney, Archbishop Peter Jensen warned of a schism...