Same-sex blessing issue proves divisive for Anglican Church in Canada

VANCOUVER - Several more British Columbia Anglican congregations will vote in the coming days on whether to abandon the local bishop and diocese and align themselves with more conservative Anglicans in South America, despite the church's Canadian leader warning that they'll lose their church, property and funding if they leave.

The root of the split is the contentious issue of the blessing of same-sex unions.

"It started out as a tear in the fabric, then it became a rupture and now it is a schism and a new reformation," says Lesley Bentley, spokeswoman for St. John's Shaughnessy, the largest Anglican congregation in Canada and one that voted last week to leave. the rest