Indian Church Leaders Unhappy With Inducting Gay Priests, Could Join Conservative Breakaway Faction

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 12:46:39 PM
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Indian church leaders say they are extremely unhappy with the recent trends in the Anglican church to induct gay priests and are hinting they could join the conservative breakaway faction floated recently. Bishops in Mumbai have denounced homosexuals as people “not of sound mind.”

Worldwide a major rebellion is brewing. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, set up at Jerusalem last month, has announced it will sever ties with the main churches in the US and Canada.


The Fellowship has promised to set up a council of bishops to help restore order to what it has called the "chaos" over the last five years within the worldwide Anglican church.

The ordination of Gene Robinson, the gay bishop of New Hampshire, US is considered the tipping point.

On Sunday the traditionalists published the so-called "Jerusalem Declaration" calling for a return to church teachings based on the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.

It is a coalition of bishops, archbishops and lay people from around the world. They hail from churches in the southern hemisphere - Africa, Asia, Australia, South America - but also enjoy the support of unhappy conservative evangelicals from the US, Canada and England. The coalition members represent around half of the world's 77 million Anglicans.

Gay clergy and same-sex unions are the main irritant for those seceding from the Anglican communion; however, Foca members are also unhappy with the West's failure to proselytise to non-Christians.
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