GAFCON Geared For Action

Russell Powell
27 May 2008

The Global Anglican Future Conference is just three weeks away and there are growing indications that participants will push for concrete action to be taken at the gathering.

More than 1,000 senior leaders from seventeen provinces in the Anglican Communion, representing 35 million church-going Anglicans, have registered for the meeting in Jerusalem from June 22nd to 29th.

They include 280 bishops, almost all accompanied by their wives.

More than 60 will travel from Australia including Archbishop Jensen and the five Sydney bishops, as well as Bishop David Mulready from the Diocese of the Northwest and Bishop Peter Brain of Armidale.

One of the leaders, Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda, says there’ll be an urgency about the talks. the rest