November 30, 2007 South American archbishop sees ‘denial’ and ‘hypocrisy’ in Canadian leaders’ statement

Canadian Anglican leaders are practicing “either denial or hypocrisy” when they criticize bishops who want to cross national and diocesan jurisdictions to minister to congregations that are conservative on the issue of homosexuality, said Archbishop Gregory Venables, primate, or national archbishop, of the South American Province of the Southern Cone.

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November 29, 2007 Church leaders call dissidents' actions 'unwelcome and invalid'

Anglican Church of Canada leaders are appealing to the Archbishop of Canterbury to address moves by dissidents to join a South American church and minister illegitimately in Canada.

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November 22, 2007 South American province opens arms to dissenting Canadian parishes

An Anglican province in South America said on Nov. 22 that it will accept conservative Canadian Anglican churches that are in “serious theological dispute” with their dioceses or with the national church. Such disputes have become more acute recently over differing views on homosexuality.

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November 17, 2007 Niagara diocese approves blessings for gay couples; bishop assents

The southern Ontario diocese of Niagara, meeting at its annual synod, on Nov. 17 voted to allow civilly-married gay couples, “where at least one party is baptized,” to receive a church blessing.

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November 17, 2007 Council expresses sadness over bishop's departure

The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has described as “a source of sadness” the decision by a retired bishop to leave the Anglican Church of Canada over the issue of same-sex blessings, but also said an “appropriate provision for pastoral care and episcopal support” exists for all Canadian Anglicans.

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November 16, 2007 Bishop leaves Canadian church for South American province

The retired bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Don Harvey, has left the Anglican Church of Canada to become a bishop in the South American province of the Southern Cone, a decision that the primate of the Canadian church acknowledged would pose “complications” for the already fragile unity within the local church and the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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November 5, 2007 Bishops continue moratorium on same-gender blessings

Canada’s Anglican bishops, at their regular fall meeting, decided to leave in place a set of pastoral guidelines concerning church services for gay couples that stops short of blessings or marriage. They also expressed serious concern about Canadian participation in activities widening the schism in the Anglican Communion.

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November 1, 2007 ‘Schismatic’ Zimbabwe bishop should resign, says colleague

Bishop Nolbert Kunonga of Harare in Zimbabwe should resign his post following his attempt to withdraw his diocese from the Anglican Communion’s Central Africa Province, said his counterpart in Botswana, Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba. The Botswana bishop cited Bishop Kunonga’s opposition to the granting of what he described as “Christian rights” to homosexuals.

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November 1, 2007 Schism plans develop after U.S. meeting

The split between liberal and conservative Anglicans grew wider in September as bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church reaffirmed their denomination’s more-inclusive stance on homosexuality and a breakaway group of bishops moved to form a “new ecclesiastical structure” in North America.

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November 1, 2007 Primate urges new focus for Canadian church

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is urging Canadian Anglicans to find a balance between addressing issues that “consume us internally” such as human sexuality and those that call them to “serve the needs of the world.”

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