Global South Anglican

We, the undersigned Bishops of East Asia, meeting in Manila, Philippines, 6-12 October 2004, are deeply concerned with the ongoing crisis in, and the grave uncertainties and threats to the unity and continuity of, the Anglican Communion.  We feel duty bound for the whole Communion we all deeply love to express our pains and to unequivocally urge the following:

As we meet, being acutely conscious of the current critical challenges we face as a Communion, we reaffirm our unswerving commitment to the historic and apostolic Christian Faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures “once delivered to the saints” (Jude v.3), proclaimed and practised by the Anglican Communion over the centuries.

RESOLUTION passed unanimously at the Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the 2nd Session of Synod of the Province of South East Asia on 20 November 2003 at Kudat, Sabah, MALAYSIA

As ECUSA has willfully disregarded the strong warnings given at Lambeth that such an action would “tear the fabric of the communion at its deepest level”, we can now have no basis whatsoever for any further confidence that ECUSA will pay any regard to the findings of the recently announced Commission set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 

It is with profound sadness that we have arrived at this moment in the history of the Anglican Communion. Having met, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for two days, October 15-16, we struggled to find a way to reconcile our divergent views on human sexuality.

God’s glory and loving purposes have been revealed in the creation of humankind (Rom. 1:18; Gen. 1:36, 27). Among the multiplicty of his gifts we are blessed with our sexuality