North American bishops will cut off funds from the Anglican Church in Africa if they are disciplined for supporting the election of a gay bishop. This warning is due to be delivered to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, by a commission made up of senior churchmen from across the world. The commission has recently completed a year-long deliberation into the church's future.

The extraordinary scenes in Rome after the death of Pope John Paul II disguised the problems that his successor, Joseph Ratzinger -- now Benedict XVI, the sixth German pontiff -- will face in becoming the spiritual leader of one-sixth of the world's population: 1,1-billion people. The wave of affection shown for the old pope a fortnight ago was a message the cardinals may have misunderstood.

An African bishop has announced that he will not accept more than $350 000 of funding to help Aids victims in his area because it comes from an American diocese that supported the election of a gay bishop two years ago. In a statement released to an American conservative Episcopalian website, Nzerebende announced: "South Rwenzori diocese upholds the Holy Scriptures as true word of God."

The leader of the United States Episcopal Church told Ugandan Anglican bishops on Friday to keep out of its affairs after three Los Angeles parishes decided to ally themselves with an African diocese in the row over homosexual clergy. The parishes, in Newport Beach, Long Beach and North Hollywood, are the first to seek oversight from a bishop overseas.

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North American bishops will cut off funds from the Anglican Church in Africa if they are disciplined for supporting the election of a gay bishop. This warning is due to be delivered to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, by a commission made up of senior churchmen from across the world. The commission has recently completed a year-long deliberation into the church's future.

The extraordinary scenes in Rome after the death of Pope John Paul II disguised the problems that his successor, Joseph Ratzinger -- now Benedict XVI, the sixth German pontiff -- will face in becoming the spiritual leader of one-sixth of the world's population: 1,1-billion people. The wave of affection shown for the old pope a fortnight ago was a message the cardinals may have misunderstood.

An African bishop has announced that he will not accept more than $350 000 of funding to help Aids victims in his area because it comes from an American diocese that supported the election of a gay bishop two years ago. In a statement released to an American conservative Episcopalian website, Nzerebende announced: "South Rwenzori diocese upholds the Holy Scriptures as true word of God."