Orthodox Anglicans Urged to Hold Fast to Sound Teaching

By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Sat, Jul. 24 2010

"The Western world has become afraid or is unwilling to acknowledge that there is right and wrong – that there is good and evil," Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, primate of the Church of Nigeria, told members of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America. "The West, Nations and Church, are disinheriting their Christian inheritance."

Okoh was bringing greetings to CANA members who gathered in Herndon, Va., this week for their annual council meeting. CANA was established by the Church of Nigeria three years ago for those who were discontent with the liberal direction of The Episcopal Church – the U.S. body of Anglicanism – but who still wanted to remain tied with the global Anglican Communion.

Currently, CANA has over 90 congregations and over 230 clergy in 34 states plus the District of Columbia and Canada. Also, as a founding partner of the Anglican Church in North America – which is seen as a rival body to The Episcopal Church – CANA helped establish two dioceses in the Great Lakes Region and around Atlanta.

Bishop Martyn Minns, who leads CANA, reminded members that they are in the midst of a crisis and "a tide of pollution" threatens the church. the rest