Conservative Anglicans form breakaway church in revolution led from the south

New Hampshire's gay bishop was turning point: move marks power shift to developing countries
Riazat Butt and Toni O'Loughlin Jerusalem
Monday June 30, 2008

Conservative evangelicals representing half of the world's Anglicans launched a new global church yesterday, challenging the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and vowing to rescue people from the forces of "militant secularism and pluralism" created by a "spiritual decline" in developing economies.

The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, Foca, will sever ties with the main churches in the US and Canada, whose leaders they accuse of betraying biblical teaching. Foca architects will tomorrow go to the conservative evangelical church of All Souls, in central London, to discuss global Anglicanism and English orthodoxy. the rest