Anglican Head Embarks on Middle East Tour

Sun, Feb. 21 2010
By Aaron J. Leichman
Christian Post Reporter

The head of the worldwide Anglican Communion expressed his "deep" concern over the declining number of believers in the Middle East as he marked the start a four-day visit to the region.

“We worry deeply about the dwindling of numbers here,” Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said not long after arriving in Jordan for the first leg of his Feb. 19-23 trip.

“I believe it’s the first importance that we keep that solidarity, friendship and presence,” he added, according to the UAE-based National news agency. the rest