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Trapped for more than a decade inside a wrenching cyclone of doctrinal disputes, the Anglican Church of Canada will try to chart a path through the storm at a historic meeting in Winnipeg. More than 400 bishops, clergy and ordinary members of Canada's oldest Protestant church will convene on Monday for the church's General Synod - the first such national meeting in three years - to elect a new Canadian leader and to vote on whether to let priests bless the partnerships of same-sex couples. However the church decides to treat its gay and lesbian members, the outcome is certain...

Gay Anglicans offer mixed reviews of a statement by the Canadian House of Bishops in which the bishops claim to support “the most generous pastoral response possible” toward gay and lesbian couples while they also signal they will veto attempts to clarify the church’s teaching. Members of Integrity Canada are at turns offended, disappointed, and confused by the bishops’ “possible pastoral responses” and demands for prolonged dialogue and study. The proposed pastoral provisions are a “slap in the face of committed gay and lesbian couples,” says Michelle Crawford-Bewley of Integrity Toronto. “We are relegated to second-class status in our own...

BIRMINGHAM, AL: (1/14/2006)--A group of orthodox Canadian Anglicans who had become disenchanted with the theological direction of their national church, and fled, have now found a permanent home in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Leaders of the Anglican Coalition in Canada (formerly Anglican Communion in Canada) told VirtueOnline that a new day has dawned and that a new orthodox Anglican expression of the faith is now "open for business" across Canada, to provide an alternative to what they say is the apostasy and false teaching within the Anglican Church of Canada. The Rev. Ed Hird, Communications Director for the ACiC and...

The Church of Nigeria’s decision last September to amend its constitution by deleting all references to its communion “with the See of Canterbury and with all dioceses, provinces and regional churches which are in full communion with the See of Canterbury” has far-reaching implications for Anglicanism worldwide, say some experts on canon law. Weeks after Nigeria’s General Synod changed its constitution the diocese of Sydney passed, without debate, a similar motion making it optional for the Church of Australia to maintain its traditional ties with the Church of England. A proposed amendment has likewise been submitted to Australia’s General Synod...