Monday, March 05, 2007

Tanzanian bishop on US crusade
2007-03-05
By Okhlahoma

The firestorm ignited by the election of a gay Episcopal bishop in Minneapolis in 2003 is affecting Anglicans in the heart of Africa today, said Bishop Gerard Mpango of Tanzania.

Mpango was in Tulsa this week, meeting with Anglicans who have withdrawn from the Episcopal Church over concern that the church was drifting from its biblical moorings. Two weeks ago, he was the chaplain of a six-day meeting of worldwide Anglican leaders in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

At that meeting, the leaders demanded that the Episcopal Church USA `unequivocally` bar official prayers for same-sex couples and bar the consecration of additional gay bishops.
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