Anglican leaders avoid church split over homosexuals
· US Episcopalians take steps to avoid rift
· Archbishop's report seen as rebuff to conservatives
Stephen Bates in Dar es Salaam
Friday February 16, 2007
The Guardian

The primates of the worldwide Anglican communion appeared last night to have stepped back from moves to exclude the US Episcopal church over its liberal position towards gay people.

A report by a group headed by Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, given to the churches' archbishops and presiding bishops at their biannual meeting in Tanzania yesterday said the Americans had largely done everything required of them in reining back on consecrating gay bishops and expressing their regret for straining relations with other Anglicans. the rest