Akinola responds to Scotsman‘s report
LAGOS (Reuters) — Nigeria’s Anglican archbishop said on Wednesday that a meeting next month of traditionalist Anglicans from developing nations opposed to the advancement of gay rights in Western churches was not meant to create a schism.
Peter Akinola, the most outspoken critic of liberal Anglicans in the United States, Canada and Britain, denounced as speculation reports on the Internet that the meeting would decide on a break in the 77 million-strong Anglican Communion.
The meeting of traditionalists - mostly from Africa and Latin America but including dissidents from North America - will be the latest step in two years of deepening divisions in the worldwide Communion sparked by the ordination of a U.S. gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions in Canada.