New allegiances in Africa
U.S. churches have joined forces with dioceses that prohibit homosexuality, female clergy.
Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers
November 17, 2006
KAMPALA, UGANDA -

Angry over their U.S. church's position on homosexuality, a growing number of Episcopal congregations are seeking spiritual shelter thousands of miles away, in the Anglican churches of Africa.

The Episcopal Church's consecration in 2003 of an openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, created a rift with conservative U.S. Episcopalians that deepened with this year's installation of the church's new top bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, who supports same-sex marriages and gays in the clergy. the rest