From Reuters-
About a fifth of the world's Anglican leaders are boycotting a meeting this week in protest at the U.S. Episcopal Church's ordination of gay bishops and blessing of same-sex couples, organizers said on Tuesday.
Their refusal to attend the conference of primates in the Irish capital Dublin underlines tensions which are threatening split the loose group of churches that make up the 80-million strong worldwide Anglican Communion.
The Anglican Communion said the seven primates, or leaders, who had not turned up in protest at the stance taken by the U.S. Episcopal Church had nevertheless "reiterated their commitment to the Communion and to the Archbishop of Canterbury."
Canon Chris Sugden, of the group Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, wrote in "Evangelicals Now" magazine that the leaders' absence "calls into question the ability of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Rowan Williams) to fulfill his role as gatherer of the Communion."
Conservatives want sanctions imposed on the U.S. church, headed by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
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