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1) http://www.acl.asn.au/ http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/aroundtheweb/ http://www.irishangle.net/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255 http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/articles/39/00/acns3948.cfm Excerpts from The Anglican Communion Primates' Meeting Communiqué, February 2005 (...)14. Within the ambit of the issues discussed in the Windsor Report and in order to recognise the integrity of all parties, we request that the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church of Canada voluntarily withdraw their members from the Anglican Consultative Council for the period leading up to the next Lambeth Conference. During that same period we request that both churches respond through their relevant constitutional bodies to the questions specifically addressed to them in the Windsor Report as they consider their place within the Anglican Communion. (cf. paragraph 8) (...)18. In the meantime, we ask our fellow primates to use their best influence to persuade their brothers and sisters to exercise a moratorium on public Rites of Blessing for Same-sex unions and on the consecration of any bishop living in a sexual relationship outside Christian marriage(...)
Friday 25th February 2005 Archbishop Peter Jensen's Statement on the Primates' Communique from the Archbishop of Sydney
"We must cautiously welcome this decision and communique from the Primates' of the Anglican Communion," Archbishop Peter Jensen said in Sydney, Friday.
"It should be seen as a victory for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams in that it buys time for a full resolution of this serious theological and pastoral problem in the life of churches and congregations of the Anglican Communion.
"I am pleased to note that the Primates' have taken disciplinary action against those who have transgressed the Scriptural teaching; and that they have affirmed the content of the 1998 Lambeth Conference Resolution 1.10 on Human Sexuality.
"I am also pleased that they have asked for urgent action to ensure the continuing place in the life of the Communion and the pastoral care of those churches and church leaders in Canada and North America who have stood firm for the clear Scriptural teaching on matters of sexuality.
"Everything now depends on how effective and speedy this action is," Dr Jensen concluded.
3) http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/02/24/anglican-050224.html Gay issues drive U.S., Canadian churches from Anglican council Last Updated Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:14:38 EST CBC News
LONDON - The U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada will withdraw from a key body of the worldwide Anglican Communion at the request of conservative church leaders who condemned their stands on homosexual issues.
Although the suspension from the Anglican Consultative Council was said to be temporary, it's the first time the communion has split formally over the election of a gay bishop in the United States and the blessing of same-sex unions in both countries(...)
4) http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/news05022403.asp Primates Statement - Anglican Mainstream Response 25th February 2005 (...)We support their request that ECUSA and the Anglican Church of Canada voluntarily withdraw from the Communion for the three years leading up to Lambeth 2008
We further support their request to their fellow bishops for a moratorium on public Rites of Blessing for same-sex unions and on the consecration of any bishop living in a sexual relationship outside Christian marriage(..)
5) http://aacblog.classicalanglican.net/archives/000456.html Primates Statement - AAC / Network Response 25th February 2005 (...)At last a clear and unequivocal choice has been presented to the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada. Being asked voluntarily to withdraw, the two provinces have been effectively suspended from the Communion until at least July 2008 in order to consider their place within that body. They must choose between repentance marked by compliance with the Windsor Report or continued theological innovations that separate them from the teaching and life of the Anglican Communion(...)
6) http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050224-1542-anglicans-gays.html U.S. and Canadian branches of Anglican church withdraw from key body in dispute over gay issues http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/sns-ap-anglicans-gays,0,3834928.story?coll=ny-top-headlines Anglican Leaders Seek Split Over Gay Issue http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002189764_anglicans25.html (Seattle Times, USA) US, Canada Anglicans to withdraw from group http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/25/anglican_body_urges_us_episcopal_withdrawal/ (Boston Globe) Anglican body urges US Episcopal withdrawal http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=328959 (Japan Today News) http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050224/CPN/16669013 (Canada East News) Anglican primates agree Canadian, U.S. churches will withdraw from key body http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050224.wanglikan0224a/BNStory/National/ Anglican Communion throws down gauntlet (Globe and Mail) http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/A/ANGLICANS_GAYS?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME Anglican Church Asks U.S., Canada to Leave (372 related articles listed on Google.ca) By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer, Feb 24th Thursday 2005
LONDON (AP) -- Anglican primates agreed Thursday that the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada would withdraw from a key body of the global Anglican Communion after failing to overcome internal church disagreements about the election of a gay bishop in the United States and the blessing of same-sex unions there and in Canada.
The agreement marked the first formal breach in the communion over the explosive issues of sexuality and biblical authority(...)
The two churches would temporarily step away from the Anglican Consultative Council, a key body for contact among the national churches and one of the four so-called "instruments of unity."(...)
The Anglican Consultative Council is the body through which leaders of the national churches meet and consult in between the once-every-10-years Lambeth Conferences. The U.S. and the Canadian churches each send three delegates to the council, which is the only global Anglican body which includes bishops, priests and laity, said James Rosenthal, spokesman for the Anglican Communion(...)
World Anglican leaders rebuke Canadian church By MICHAEL VALPY, Globe and Mail Canada Newspaper Friday, February 25, 2005 - Page A1 The leaders of the world Anglican Communion rebuked the U.S. and Canadian Anglican churches yesterday over their acceptance of homosexuality and pushed them to withdraw from one of the global church's top policy-making bodies.
The severity of the rebuke from the primates, or senior bishops and archbishops of the church, was unexpected. Canadian Anglican academics had thought that most primates would let their desire for church unity trump their objections to homosexuality.
And while the move falls well short of branding the Canadian and U.S. churches as heretical and kicking them out of the world Communion, the impact of the primates' announcement on the two churches internally will be explosive(...)
Vancouver Anglican theologian (Richard) Leggett said last night it is not the business of the Archbishop of Canterbury to meddle in the internal affairs of the autonomous churches of the Anglican Communion(...)
The world Anglican uproar over homosexuality erupted a few years ago after Vancouver's Bishop of New Westminster, Michael Ingham, gave his consent to the blessing of same-sex unions in the churches of his diocese(...)
"Although it's a relatively mild punitive measure," Prof. Leggett said, "what the primates are saying is, 'Your presence bothers us, so don't come.' "(...)
8) http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=f84fd709-2bd9-4cee-a710-eb2321793c26 Anglican primates agree Canadian, U.S. churches will withdraw from key body Canadian Press (National Post) Thursday, February 24, 2005
9) http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=2&nid=25194 Churches Split from Anglican Communion Jen Traplin Thursday, February 24, 2005, 580 CFRA News, Canada The Anglican Church of Canada and the United States Episcopal Church are withdrawing from the global Anglican Communion(...)
10) http://www.anglican.ca/news/news.php?newsItem=2005-02-24_statement.news A Statement from the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada February 24, 2005, Anglican Journal, ACC, Canada (...)The Primates' communique is not a perfect document and no doubt there will be a variety of interpretations. It does, however, reflect the consensus that we were able to achieve(...)
February 25, 2005, LA Times, California THE WORLD U.S., Canada Churches Urged to Leave Key Anglican Council The top archbishops want North Americans to enact a moratorium on gay union blessings (...)In Los Angeles, Episcopal Bishop J. Jon Bruno endorsed the withdrawal of U.S. participation in the international Anglican body as a way of maintaining unity in the short run. He said he believed that Griswold could continue to represent the U.S. church in the global communion through participation in the primates' meetings.
Bruno also said that he would maintain a previously announced personal moratorium on blessing same sex unions, but he would not prohibit his priests from performing such rites until the national church reconsidered the issue.
The Rev. Susan Russell of Pasadena, president of Integrity, a national Episcopal gay and lesbian advocacy organization, said the call for a moratorium on blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay and lesbian bishops in monogamous same-sex relationships was "problematic."(...)
Christian Post, California, Feb 24th 2005 Thursday Anglican Communion Ejects U.S., Canada Church in Gay Fray
13) http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWRELIGIONGayfr06churchgays?source=&ct=5 Anglican Church rift over gay issue 25 February 2005, This is London Newspaper, UK The leaders of Anglican churches in the United States and Canada have been told to take time out to explain their attitude towards homosexuality, following a meeting of 38 church primates from around the world.
In a surprise move, members of the Anglican Communion called on the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada to voluntarily withdraw their members from a consultative council until the next Lambeth Conference(...)
14) http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/10986908.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 25, 2005 Churches leave key Anglican group Conservatives pressure them to withdraw From Staff and Wire Reports (The State Newspaper, South Carolina) LONDON - The U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada withdrew Thursday from a key body of the 77 million-member global Anglican Communion under pressure from conservative church leaders(...) Though the suspension of the churches was said to be temporary, it marked the first formal split in the Communion related to issues of sexuality and biblical authority(...)
15) http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=7736341 (South Africa) http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12367891-401,00.html Anglicans face temporary split in gay row by Peter Griffiths in London February 25, 2005 From: Reuters (Australia) THE Anglican Church has edged closer to a possible schism after it called on the Canadian and US churches to quit one of its key bodies until 2008 while they reconsider their support for gay bishops(...)
16) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050224-115733-2113r.htm Flocks in U.S., Canada face split By Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada must cease ordaining homosexuals and conducting blessings of same-sex unions by 2008 or withdraw from the worldwide Anglican Communion, the denomination's archbishops ruled yesterday. In the meantime, the two churches cannot participate in the governing body of the 70-million-member Anglican Communion, according to a five-page communique issued last night from a conference in Northern Ireland(...)
17) http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0225/anglican.html US, Canadian clerics to withdraw RTE Interactive, Ireland 25 February 2005 07:57 Canadian and US Archbishops have been asked to withdraw from the Anglican church's decision making body for three years(...)
18) http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/02/24/anglican.canada/ Anglican rift deepens over gays Friday, February 25, 2005 Posted: 0305 GMT (1105 HKT) (CNN News) -- Representatives of the U.S. and Canadian wings of the Anglican Communion have been asked to leave a church body amid disagreements over a Canadian diocese's support for same-sex marriage and the elevation of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire. The Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada were asked to withdraw from the Anglican Consultative Council, one of four major church bodies, by Anglican primates meeting in Northern Ireland this week.
However, Robert Williams, a spokesman for the U.S. Episcopal Church, told CNN that "despite differing opinions in this case related to human sexuality," the Anglican Communion is not splitting apart.
"Even amid differences of opinion, the Anglican Communion is not coming apart," he said.
"It is moving forward. It is a vital institution, and we go forward on that basis."(...)
19) http://www.acl.asn.au/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1424975,00.html Church faces schism today Canada and US to leave over stance on gays Stephen Bate, religious affairs correspondent Friday February 25, 2005, The Guardian, UK The worldwide Anglican communion was heading for an unprecedented schism last night as its member churches in the US and Canada were asked to withdraw from intercommunal gatherings following the rift over homosexuality.
In a six-page communique, issued late last night following earlier leaks to the Guardian and other newspapers, the primates of the 78 million-strong Anglican church, attending a meeting in Northern Ireland, agreed to call upon the US and Canadian churches to withdraw voluntarily for at least three years.
Their representatives will not be invited to church meetings for that period(...)
20) http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=614575 Gay row forces split with North American Anglicans By Danielle Demetriou, 25 February 2005, Independent Newspaper, UK A schism in the Anglican Church was looming last night after the American and Canadian branches were asked to withdraw temporarily due to a dispute over homosexuality. The Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada were urged to voluntarily withdraw their members from a consultative council until the next Lambeth Conference(...) The move is expected to divide the 78 million-strong Anglican Church after thousands of lesbian and gay Christians and their supporters threatened to leave if Canada and the US were forced out(...) Traditionalists were also angered when New Westminster in Vancouver, Canada, became the first province in the communion to introduce a service of blessing for same-sex couples. Primates from the "Global South" churches of Africa and Asia, have led calls for the suspension and expulsion of the Church in North America. However, there were reports last night that canon lawyers at the primates' meeting advised that there was no legal process to permit such an expulsion to take place. Instead, the Anglican Communion chose the option of urging the Episcopal Church of the US and the Anglican Church of Canada to "withdraw" temporarily(...)
21) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3056405 Feb. 25, 2005, 12:19AM, Houston Chronicle, USA Anglicans face split over gay issues U.S. and Canada churches are asked to withdraw temporarily from world body By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press(...)
22) http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12368058%255E1702,00.html 25 feb 05, Brisbane Courier Mail, Australia ANGLICAN Archbishop of Sydney Peter Jensen has welcomed disciplinary action against two North American arms of the church for supporting homosexuality.
The international Anglican Communion's 35 most senior leaders have requested the churches voluntarily and temporarily withdraw from the Anglican Consultative Council, a key church body said today(...)
23) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1424943,00.html Church faces schism today Canada and US to leave over stance on gays Stephen Bate, religious affairs correspondent Friday February 25, 2005 The Guardian, UK
The worldwide Anglican communion was heading for an unprecedented schism last night as its member churches in the US and Canada were asked to withdraw from intercommunal gatherings following the rift over homosexuality.
In a six-page communique, issued late last night following earlier leaks to the Guardian and other newspapers, the primates of the 78 million-strong Anglican church, attending a meeting in Northern Ireland, agreed to call upon the US and Canadian churches to withdraw voluntarily for at least three years.
Their representatives will not be invited to church meetings for that period(...)
24) http://anglicanjournal.com/extra/news.html?newsItem=2005-02-24_mns.news Primates move to sanction North American churches Canada 'invited' to withdraw from international council until 2008 MARITES N. SISON, STAFF WRITER, Anglican Journal Feb. 24, 2005 - Primates of the Anglican Communion today asked the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) to "voluntarily withdraw" their members to the Anglican Consultative Council for the period leading up to the next Lambeth Conference of Bishops in 2008.
The call from the primates, or senior bishops of the Anglican Communion's 38 provinces, was issued late on Feb. 24 in a communiqué. It stopped short of recommending the expulsion from the communion of both churches, whose liberal views on homosexuality have triggered a near-schism within the Communion. Nonetheless, it was apparently a compromise meant to mollify more conservative Anglicans from the global South and North America who have repeatedly called for tough disciplinary measures against ECUSA for consecrating a gay bishop in New Hampshire, and the Anglican Church of Canada for the decision by one of its dioceses, New Westminster, to allow same-sex blessings.
The withdrawal by Canadian Anglicans and Episcopalians from the Anglican Consultative Council and other international Anglican councils was among the recommendations put forward by the Windsor Report, published last October by the Lambeth Commission created by Archbishop Rowan Williams to seek ways of finding "the highest communion possible" amidst deep divisions among the church's 70 million members over homosexuality(...)
(One of Anglicanism's four "instruments of unity," the Anglican Consultative Council came into being in 1969 and is comprised of laity, clergy and bishops from across the Anglican Communion. It provides consultation and guidance on policy issues, such as world mission and ecumenism, for the Anglican Communion. The Anglican Church of Canada's representatives to the council are Bishop Sue Moxley of Nova Scotia, Canon Allen Box and Bishop Victoria Matthews of Edmonton as alternate.)
It indicated that the churches' return to the council would hinge on whether they were willing to accept the teachings on matters of human sexuality as expressed in a 1998 Lambeth resolution, which rejected homosexual practice as "incompatible with Scripture."(...)
25) http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=529325 Anglican Church Asks U.S., Canada to Leave Anglican Leaders Ask U.S., Canadian Churches to Withdraw Temporarily From Councils The Associated Press (ABC News)
LONDON Feb 24, 2005 - Leaders of the global Anglican Communion declared Thursday that they want the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada to withdraw from the communion's councils temporarily, and to explain their attitudes toward gays which have split the church(...)
26) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/national/25anglican.html Anglican Leaders Seek Move to Avoid Schism By NEELA BANERJEE and BRIAN LAVERY Published: February 25, 2005 Leaders of the global Anglican communion have asked the Episcopal Church U.S.A. and the Anglican Church of Canada to withdraw their representatives temporarily from a key governing body of the denomination, in an unprecedented move to avoid a schism over the American church's consecration of an openly gay man as a bishop and both churches' blessing of same-sex unions.
The Rev. Jan Nunley, a spokeswoman in New York for the Episcopal Church, said no decision had yet been made on the request. She said the church's presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, would talk to the three representatives to the Anglican governing body next week about it(...)
27) http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ Anglicans demand temporary split By Alex Kirby BBC News, Newry, Northern Ireland, Feb 24th Thursday 2005
The threatened split between conservative and liberal Anglicans over homosexuality is now almost complete(...)
Out of the family But a late-evening communique announced they had agreed a day early to ask the North American churches to bow out for the time being.
In a key passage, the communique says: "... We request that the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church of Canada voluntarily withdraw their members from the Anglican Consultative Council for the period leading up to the next Lambeth Conference" [the ten-yearly meeting of all Anglican bishops, due next in 2008].
The ACC is a liaison body, with members drawn from each province or member church. To step down would mean a church was no longer a full member of the Anglican family. One observer said: "The primates have handed the North Americans a pearl-handled revolver."(...)
Anglicans give ultimatum to pro-gay liberals By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 25/02/2005), Telegraph Newspaper, UK
The worldwide Anglican Church was heading towards schism last night as its leaders prepared to force out the pro-homosexual liberal Americans and Canadians(...)
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is understood to have backed the uncompromising stance after week-long talks in Northern Ireland failed to achieve reconciliation(...)
The development will dismay liberals across the world, and may prompt protests and even resignations from prominent C of E clerics(...)
Insiders said that the Americans, who triggered the crisis by consecrating Anglicanism's first openly homosexual bishop, must decide whether they want to remain part of the Communion. In the meantime, it is understood they will no longer be participants in Anglican summits.
As a condition of being restored, they will be required to concede that their unilateral actions were wrong and pledge not to repeat them. A similar set of conditions may apply to the Canadians, the main supporters of the American position.
It is understood, however, that both the Americans and the Canadians made it clear at this week's meeting, which was being held in a remote Roman Catholic retreat centre near Newry, that they were highly unlikely to reverse their deeply held convictions(...)
But observers believe that the Americans - and possibly the Canadians - may never regain their full status within the Anglican Communion - resulting in formal schism.
29) http://www.canadianchristianity.com/cgi-bin/na.cgi?nationalupdates/050223company In the company of men By David F. Dawes DAVID C. BENTALL is convinced that this culture has sold men short and he's doing something about it. In The Company You Keep (Augsburg Fortress, 2004) Heir to the noted Bentall family business dynasty, the author was at one time president and CEO of Dominion Construction. He now runs Next Step Advisors, and attends First Baptist Church in Vancouver. Bentall's book was inspired by his deep friendships with Carson Pue, international president of Arrow Leadership Ministries; and prominent Abbotsford lawyer Bob Kuhn. Evangelist Leighton Ford, he tells CC.com, "challenged us to write the book -- because he said the three of us had been in a covenant relationship of mutual support for over 12 years."(...)
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