Theological conservatives estranged from the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church in Canada formed a rival North American "province" Wednesday.

Anglican archbishops will hold an emergency meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury today to discuss the unfolding schism in the Church in America.

Traditionalist Anglicans have formally announced they are setting up a new church in the United States and Canada.

Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday, in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.

Traditionalist Anglicans are to formally announce that they are setting up a new church in the US and Canada.

Traditionalist Anglicans are to formally announce that they are setting up a new church in the US and Canada.

As breakaway Anglicans prepare to introduce a draft constitution for their new conservative province in North America on Wednesday, many within the global church body are debating whether a separate structure is the best way to deal with the current divisions.

"We have heard foreign media report that about three hundred Muslims were killed by Christians, this is an old propaganda tactic against Christians in Jos using a carefully calculated system of reportage to always put the Christians on the defence."

One of the New South Wales far south coast's oldest churches celebrated an historical milestone yesterday.

The largest number of people ever to become priests in one day in the history of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne were ordained at two services – 11am and 4pm – on Saturday 29 November, in St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne.

This book is particularly strong in its account of Williams' early years. From the moment he first went to school he, as an only child, seems to have been regarded as something of an infant prodigy.

Members of the Joint Standing Committee [JSC] of the Primates and the Anglican Consultative Council are scheduled to meet this week. No formal discussion of the Gafcon call for a third province in North America has been planned for the gathering, sources report.

Fourteen bishops of the Anglican Church in the Province of the West Indies, meeting in the House of Bishops and Provincial Standing Committee in Nassau, Bahamas, November 11-14, under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of the West Indies, the Most Rev Drexel Gomez, have registered their opposition to the death penalty, while calling for intervention by government and cooperation of the Church as part of civil society, to deal with the situation which facilitates the upsurge of crime and violence in the Caribbean region.

The beatification of Cardinal Newman, the most prominent Anglican convert to Catholicism, should offer "a great opportunity ecumenically" and not be presented as "Roman Catholic triumphalism", a leading expert on Newman has said.

A conservative province in the Anglican church faces “punishment” this week for offering a safe haven to conservatives.

The problem for those who are interested in talking about religion is often just getting enough air time, so to see that God would be blazoned on the side of buses, even if it a sort of anti-God message, was actually very interesting.

Up to 1,000 people are expected to farewell a father and his two young sons who drowned in a wharf accident at an Anglican funeral service on the NSW south coast.

A conservative province in the Anglican church faces “punishment” this week for offering a safe haven to conservatives.

The inhibition is of no force or effect, since the Bishop and Diocese,meeting in annual convention, constitutionally realigned with another province of the Anglican
Communion on Saturday, Nov. 15, and are now constituent members of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, writes Bishop Iker.

n his article last week in The Church of England Newspaper, Stephen Kuhrt argued that the 57-member CEEC is not representative because 28 members belong to what he defines as one, conservative, stream. Stephen argues, as does Graham Kings in a parallel article in the Church Times last week, that there are three streams in the evangelical constituency and any organization claiming to represent that constituency needs to reflect them in proportion.

US Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has suspended Fort Worth Bishop Jack Iker from the ministry of the Episcopal Church on the grounds of having backed his diocese’s secession to the Province of the Southern Cone.

A discussion based around another piece on the topic of lay presidency, this time from GAFCON prominent Chris Sugden.

The Episcopal Bishops of Los Angeles and California have filed suit to overturn California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage.

Fr Perkins was officially installed as the Dean of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral in Lydiard St at the weekend.

The leaders of the Common Cause Partnership (CCP) are set to endorse a draft constitution to govern the loose coalition of breakaway dioceses, congregations and Anglican jurisdictions in the United States.