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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November 1, 2007 Synod says yes to blessings

The synod of the diocese of Ottawa by a vote of 177 to 97 approved on Oct. 13 a motion requesting its bishop to allow clergy “whose conscience permits, to bless duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same-sex couples” and to authorize rites for such blessings.

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October 29, 2007 Ontario priest disciplined for marrying same-sex couple

A priest in the diocese of Ontario has been disciplined and had his licence to marry cancelled after officiating at the wedding of a same-sex couple last August in a church in rural Ontario, where he is the incumbent.

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October 29, 2007 “Progressive” Anglicans urge bishops to allow gay marriage

A group of Canadian Anglicans on the liberal, or “progressive,” side of issues concerning homosexuality and the church have urged Anglican bishops to “proceed to (the) full inclusion (of gay and lesbian people) by providing access to all sacraments and sacramental rites of the church,” including marriage.

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October 20, 2007 Montreal diocese becomes second to urge same-sex blessings

The annual synod of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal has become the second to urge its bishop to allow clergy to bless previously solemnized civil?marriages between same-sex couples.?

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October 18, 2007 Ottawa synod followed process, says primate

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said he believes that “due process was followed” by the diocese of Ottawa when a majority of its synod members approved on Oct. 13 a motion asking its bishop to allow local parishes to bless civil marriages between same-sex couples.

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October 13, 2007 Ottawa votes yes to same-sex blessings

The synod of the diocese of Ottawa, by an overwhelming vote of 177 to 97, today approved a motion requesting its bishop to allow clergy “whose conscience permits, to bless duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same-sex couples, where at least one party is baptized” and to authorize rites for such blessings.

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