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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