Worldwide Anglican Meeting Brings Spotlight
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Analysts are predicting divisions will only be sharpened between liberals and conservatives in the Anglican Communion, as delegates from 20 Anglican provinces gather in Egypt this week.
Posted: Monday, October 24 , 2005, 12:34 (UK)

With delegates from across the Anglican Communion gathering in Egypt this week, analysts are expecting conservative opposition to liberal trends developing throughout the western provinces of the Communion to come out stronger than ever before.

The 77-million strong Anglican Church has faced the threat of a split since the U.S. Episcopal Church ordained gay Gene Robinson and Canadian Anglicans began blessing same-sex marriages.

The developments have been met with hostility mainly from southern hemisphere churches in Africa, particularly Nigeria, as well as parts of Latin America. The traditionalist clerics, mainly from Africa, Asia and Latin America, however, assured that the homosexual debate and a possible split from the more liberal Western churches would not overshadow the meeting in Alexandria, near the Red Sea, reports Reuters. Story