Global South Anglican

GAFCON is not just a moment in time, but a movement in the Spirit, and we hereby:
  * launch the GAFCON movement as a fellowship of confessing Anglicans
  * publish the Jerusalem Declaration as the basis of the fellowship
  * encourage GAFCON Primates to form a Council.

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THE most liberal-sounding speaker at GAFCON by the end of Tuesday was the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali. Dr Nazir-Ali surprised participants on Tuesday by speaking up for inculturation, change, and diversity. But each of these had its limits, he said. The gospel had to be adapted to different cultures, but “capitulation to culture” must be avoided; change and development must be principled; diversity had to be legitimate.  Read the full article at Church Times.

Orthodox Anglicans who are creating a new movement at a breakaway summit in Jerusalem have said they feel “betrayal and abandonment” at the current church structure. The 1,000 conservatives at the Gafcon conference say they feel “profound sadness” that the worldwide Anglican Communion has been driven to the brink of schism by liberals in America and Canada departing from traditional church teaching, particularly over sexuality.  Read the full article at Telegraph

Traditionalists are set to form a “church within a church”, keeping in formal relation with the Archbishop of Canterbury but severing ties with the progressive wings of the Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada.  Read it all here

Click on photo for a larger image. More photos in this link. Pilgrims Go to Mount of Olives, Gethsemane. Read here The Anglican Communion is in need of healing - Henry Orombi in his keynote address. Read here. GAFCON – A Rescue Mission: Archbishop Peter Akinola’s opening address. Read here

Times Online (Ruth Gledhill): Leaders of Gafcon seek to live within the Evolution of a new Global Anglicanism. Article here Living Church: GAFCON Pilgrims Face Questions on Communion’s Future. Article here More news at GAFCON site here

Titusonenine has a link to a list of the latest reports and participants’ views. Go here

The Way, the Truth and the Life is the official study document for the GAFCON Jerusalem Pilgrimage. You can now download it from the GAFCON website absolutely free here.

The whole world is watching. This gathering is about the future. In my travels around North America this spring it has become increasingly clear just how much faithful Anglicans are looking to what we will do here. In contrast, there is almost no popular expectation surrounding Lambeth. We are here on pilgrimage. With the author of the Letter to the Hebrews, we know ourselves to be strangers and exiles, aliens here. We are headed to a lasting city. We know that everything we do has to do with the story: the old, old story. Finally, it is not about England, or Canterbury, though these relationships matter to us. Our life, our witness, our leadership, our pilgrimage here is all about Jesus. What comes out of this gathering we cannot predict. But we are confident that God is not done with Anglicanism. We are confident that GAFCON is one piece of what God already has in mind as part of a Global Settlement of Anglicanism. This Global Settlement of Anglicanism we also understand to be but one aspect of a 21st century Reformation of the whole Christian Church.

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Leaders of the Global Anglican Future Conference reaffirmed the historic faith saying it is the actions of North American liberals that has caused the rift in the Communion with Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen saying that the consecration of a homosexual bishop has made the situation “irreversible” in the Anglican Communion.

GAFCON will prove to be “one of the most important events in the next two or three decades” of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Sydney has predicted, and will set the future course of the Church. In an interview with Anglican Media Sydney before his departure for the June 22-29 gathering in Jerusalem, Dr Peter Jensen said the 1,000 delegates —- including 280 bishops —- will be “working out where [Anglicans] go from here.” He dismissed suggestions that Gafcon was a stalking horse for a conservative schism, saying evangelicals “are Anglicans and intend to remain so.”

A press release from the Church of Uganda.

Mr Short, who is the rector at St John’s, and all other clergy belonging to the Anglican Network in Canada in the Diocese of New Westminster received letters outlining the charges from Bishop Michael Ingham on Monday.