Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 26 foreigners, including Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite, are also believed held by Shiite Moslem extremists...
...park, read Emerson in the library, and discussed religion. The latter soon began to fascinate him; he would rap until deep in the night about God and salvation. In the end, I got sick of it and decided it was all a bunch of bull. Terry joined the Anglican Church...
...slate of pro-divestment candidates running for the Board of Overseers received a boost yesterday when Anglican Archbishop of Capetown Desmond M. Tutu endorsed their campaign, the slate's sponsors announced last week...
Such disappointments may soon end for Williams and the 700 other deaconesses, or nonordained ministers, serving in the 27 million-member Church of England, the "mother church" of the worldwide Anglican Communion. On Feb. 6 the church's bishops issued a report endorsing the ordination of women. The study's purpose: to simplify the complicated and divisive process that may authorize female clergy for the Church of England by the early 1990s and to soften any disruptions in church life that such an action would cause...
...into account the bishops' support for female ordination, approval is virtually certain. The move would further fuel a controversy that has raged in the church since the campaign for women priests began gathering strength twelve years ago. Seven of the 28 provinces that form the 70 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, including churches in the U.S. and Canada, have opened the ranks of the priesthood to women, but the parent church has so far been reluctant to take that step...