African bishop optimistic on unity
By Wangui Kanina
Thu 22 Feb 2007

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Nigeria's Anglican archbishop on Thursday said he was hopeful talks between the Catholic and Anglican churches would lead to unity, but said it would take a long time to mend a split more than five centuries ago.

Issues surrounding a possible reuniting of the Catholic and Anglican churches are contained in a document due for publication later this year.

Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola said dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church had been going on for more than 40 years, and that much progress had been made in terms of finding ways to work around the divisive issues. the rest