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• Also: Anglican head lashes out at liberals (The Province, Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
  
  
• Also: Anglican primate fears rift over blessing gay unions | Outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury denounces B.C. diocese's decision (The Ottawa Citizen)
  
  
• Will sex rip apart the Church (as the Archbishop said to his flock)? | Disputes over faith and sexuality between conservative African bishops and liberals in North America threaten Anglican unity, warns Carey (Cahal Milmo, The London Independent)
  
  
• Sydney Anglicans going too far, says Archbishop Carey | Diocese's ambitions to go ahead with lay presidency (lay people conducting Holy Communion) equated with dioceses determined to introduce same-sex blessings (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Anglican chief and B.C. bishop in open feud over gay marriage | Canadian questions ethics of Archbishop of Canterbury (The National Post, Canada)
  
  
• B.C. bishop blamed for same-sex split | Archbishop of Canterbury's harsh words rejected as 'a great disservice to truth' (The Vancouver Sun)

Homosexuality:

• Bill to mandate gay sensitivity for foster parents | Governor has yet to decide whether he will sign a bill by Assemblywoman Judy Chu that would force foster parents to undergo sensitivity training in order to better serve gay, lesbian or transgender youths (San Gabriel Valley Tribune, California)
  
  
• Gay couple moves by Falwell church | "We just want Lynchburg to see us," says Mel White (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Falwell welcomes gay couple to church | White got some smiles and casual hellos, but no one else made a specific effort to greet him (The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.)
  
  
• Gay activists split despite successes | With inheritance and other benefits signed into law, California is seen as second only to Vermont as a gay-friendly state. Some say it's not enough (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Christian group opposes anti-gay protests | Fred Phelps plans pickets anyway (KMGH, Denver)
  
  
• Gay couples fight for equal rights | The people of Zurich will vote on Sunday on whether to grant greater equality to homosexual couples (Swissinfo)
  
  
• Ottawa finds flaw in gay marriages | The Justice Department is advancing the argument that gays and lesbians do not meet the "core opposite-sex requirements" of marriage that are based on procreation and raising children (Southam News)
  
  
• The gay non-question | It is a mark of the effectiveness of the gay lobby that the question of how to treat homosexuals is now threatening to split both the Anglican Church and the Tory party. (Editorial, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Also: Preaching and prying bigots | The wrath Anglicans and Tories visit on gays shows their squalor. (Hywel Williams, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Gay songs to be heard in church | On Sunday, as part of its service, St. Paul's Cathedral will host a performance of Watershed Stories, a series of eight songs based on interviews with people in the gay community and performed by the Prairie Pride Chorus (Leader-Post, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)

Church life:

• "Make churches more like cinemas" | Editor of the Christianity and Renewal magazine calls for churches to be made more welcoming and less intimidating (London Evening Standard)
  
  
• Also: 'Make churches more like cinemas' (Ananova)
  
  
• Stressed-out ministers at breaking point | Severe stress is affecting at least two-thirds of ministers in the Church of Scotland as they struggle to cope with the round-the-clock demands of their congregations (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  
• Evangelicals help pace U.S. growth in church attendance | Tally of Muslims rejected as low by Islamic groups (The Washington Post)
  
  

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