TLC: Postpone Lambeth Conference, African Primates Urge
10/08/2007

Only an Anglican Covenant can save the Anglican Communion from disintegration according to the primates from the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA), who met and elected new leadership Oct. 3-5 in Mauritius, part of the Province of the Indian Ocean.

The primates said an "Anglican Communion Covenant is the one way for us to uphold our common heritage of faith while at the same time holding each one of us accountable to those teachings that have defined our life together and also guide us into the future." They rejected as “unsatisfactory” a 19-page report by the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates which found that the House of Bishops had largely satisfied the concerns raised by The Episcopal Church’s partners in the Communion. the rest