Church aims to defuse split on gays
Sunday July 8, 2007

Church of England General Synod members will be asked to back the process of drawing up a possible "covenant" aimed at resolving the impasse within the worldwide Anglican Communion over gay priests.

Members of the Synod meeting in York will be addressed by the Most Rev Drexel Gomez, Archbishop of the West Indies and chairman of the Anglican Covenant Design Group.

The covenant would aim to set out a framework of faith and unity to avoid further schism in the worldwide Communion over gays.

Last year the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams suggested that the covenant could mean dividing the Anglican Communion into "associated" and "constituent" provinces. the rest