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☆ Ugandan law widens Anglican Church rift over LGBTQ rights
  + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion's 85 million members, said last week he had written to Ugandan Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba to express "grief and dismay" at Kaziimba's support for the law. Issues of LGBTQ rights have sharply divided Anglicans, with the church's GAFCON coalition of conservative adherents among the most critical. The statement by Mbanda, who is also the head of Rwanda's Anglican Church, mentioned but did not explicitly offer support for the Ugandan law. Anglicans created GAFCON in 2008 in response to what the group says was certain Western churches' abandonment of bible-based orthodoxy. The Church of Uganda says 36% of Uganda's population of around 45 million are Anglicans.
Persons: Justin Welby, Stephen Kaziimba, Joe Biden, GAFCON, Laurent Mbanda, Mbanda, Welby, Archbishop Kaziimba, Philbert Girinema, George Obulutsa, John Stonestreet Organizations: Wednesday, of England, U.S, Anglican, Global, Thomson Locations: KIGALI, Uganda, Africa
☆ Archbishop of Canterbury urges Ugandan Anglicans to reject anti-gay law
  + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the Anglican Church of Uganda to reject the country's new anti-LGBT law, saying there is no justification for Anglicans anywhere to support legislation that goes against the Christian teachings of the Gospel. Justin Welby, leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, said he had written to Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba, the Primate of Uganda, to express "grief and dismay" at the church's stance. The Church of Uganda says 36% of Uganda's population of around 45 million are Anglicans. The Ugandan church has been at the forefront of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), a conservative group. Reporting by Estelle Shirbon in London and George Obulutsa in Nairobi; Editing by Frances KerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Yoweri Museveni, Justin Welby, Stephen Kaziimba, Welby, Kaziimba, Ugandans, GAFCON, Estelle Shirbon, George Obulutsa, Frances Kerry Organizations: Anglican Future Conference, Thomson Locations: Canterbury, Uganda, London, Nairobi
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