Church seeks unity on gay rights
By Robert Pigott Religious Affairs Correspondent,
BBC News
Monday, 26 February 2007

When the Synod of the Church of England meets this week the shadow of another meeting thousands of miles away on the shores of the Indian Ocean will be hanging over it.

That is because the same chill wind of division that preoccupied the archbishops in Tanzania will be blowing through Church House in Westminster.

At last week's gathering, the leaders of the world's 38 independent Anglican churches achieved what had seemed an improbable consensus. the rest