Anglican conservatives urge U.S. break away
Fri Sep 22, 2006
By Arthur Asiimwe

KIGALI (Reuters) - Conservative American Anglicans opposed to the ordination of gay clergy must break away from their liberal colleagues in order to be recognized by traditionalists in the developing world, a bishops group said.

Bishops from Latin America, Africa and Asia, in a grouping known as the Global South, said on Friday conservative American Anglicans should start forming church structures that were different from those linked to liberals.

The 77 million-strong Anglican church has been divided since the U.S. Episcopal Church ordained a gay bishop in 2003 in a move that outraged Global South traditionalists.

"We are convinced that time has now come to take initial steps toward the formation of what will be recognized as separate ecclesiastical structure of the Anglican communion in the USA," said a statement released at the end of a Global South meeting in the Rwandan capital Kigali.
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