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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of airline pilots gave the U.S. government failing grades on Thursday in several areas of aviation security including the screening of employees and cargo, and defending planes from shoulder-fired missiles. The Coalition of Airline Pilots Association released its Aviation Security Report Card that showed aviation security gets average to failing grades in over a dozen subject areas. The trade group gave failing "F" grades to the government in five areas -- screening of employees, screening of cargo, high-tech credentialing of crew members, self-defense training for crew and the plan for countering shoulder-fired missiles. The group...

The Anglican Re-Alignment--the Article What in the World is Happening? (We field many questions about the Anglican Communion. These questions come both from those who have a long history with the topic and those with no church background at all. This article is aimed at providing some basic information on the current state of our global family.) In the period of optimism following the Second World War, the Bishop of London, J.W.C. Wand, edited a volume on the state of the Anglican Communion. It paints a picture of a world-wide church of 34 million adherents that seemed increasingly diverse in...

Africans decline funding Number: 5714 Date: April 22 The perilous state of the Anglican Communion was underlined last week when African Primates agreed to stop accepting funding from dioceses and churches which supported the consecration of a practising homosexual. In their Nairobi meeting, the Archbishops also warned the American Church that they had three months to repent before they would begin to take such concrete steps of separating themselves from those American leaders and dioceses which had supported and taken part in the consecration of Gene Robinson. For months spokespeople from the Episcopal Church in the United States have been...

<p>NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Africa's Anglican archbishops decided Thursday toreject donations from any diocese that recognizes gay clergy and refuse cooperation with any missionary that supports the idea.</p> <p>Their decision at a meeting with their counterparts from Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America was the latest attack by church conservatives against the consecration of an openly gay bishop in the United States.</p>

<p>NAIROBI, Kenya — The shock waves of last year's ordination of an openly homosexual bishop in the United States reverberated in Kenya yesterday, as Anglican leaders from across Africa began meeting to discuss whether to keep accepting crucial funding from the U.S. Episcopalian Church.</p>

African Primates in make-or-break summit Number: 5712 Date: April 8, Africa’s continuing place in the Anglican Communion will come under sharp scrutiny next week as the leaders of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa [CAPA] meet in Nairobi. The summit, running from April 14-16, will review the future of CAPA in light of the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in the USA. The 12 African Primates and the Bishop of Egypt will be joined by the Archbishops of Southeast Asia, South America, the West Indies, the Philippines, Pakistan, and New Guinea along with other Anglican...

Africa's Top Anglican Warns U.S. Church RICHARD N. OSTLING Associated Press The spokesman for bishops who claim leadership of a majority of the world's Anglican Christians denounced the gay-rights policies of America's Episcopal Church on Saturday, following a two-day caucus in Atlanta with U.S. conservatives. Archbishop Peter Akinola said the future of true Anglicanism in the United States lies with conservative minority opposition groups within the Episcopal Church who oppose gay marriage and the church's approval of an openly gay bishop. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion. Akinola also said in a telephone interview that...

LAGOS: African Bishops to confront issues of faith and morals. ACNS spin revealed News Analysis By David W. Virtue A press release from the Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) saying that a meeting of the CAPA (All Africa Bishops) in Lagos "is not a reaction to current crises in the Anglican Communion," is flat out untrue. The CAPA bishops intend to take up the serious matters of faith and morals that confront the Communion. The ACNS statement completely omitted the stated agenda items from the CAPA statement. The topics to be discussed at the conference will include HIV/AIDS, political instability,...

Primate to snub Williams over gay bishop By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 01/03/2004) Anglicanism's most senior critic of homosexuality is to embarrass the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, by boycotting a top-level meeting in Canterbury today in protest over its first openly gay bishop. The Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, is refusing to attend the meeting of Church leaders, hosted by Dr Williams, because he objects to the presence of the leader of the liberal American Church. The Archbishop, who heads 17 million Anglicans, is a leading opponent of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Bishop...

ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE ACNS 3597 | KENYA | 1 OCTOBER 2003 Peter Akinola elected new CAPA Chairman [ACNS source: Churches in the Anglican Provinces of Africa] The Most Revd Peter Jasper Akinola is the new Chairman for the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA). Archbishop Akinola, who is the Primate of Nigeria, was elected unanimously during the ninth session of the council in Nairobi last week. The Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa is a continental body that brings together all the 12 Provinces in Africa and the Diocese of Egypt, which falls under the Province of Jerusalem...