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• The Uniting Church accepts all people. It always has | Engagement with the community is at the core of the church's beliefs (Alistair Macrae, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

Church of England homosexual rift:

• God 'wants openly gay priests in Church of England' | So says Gene Robinson, a gay priest in the Episcopal Church (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Church in crisis | Schism may be the only answer (Editorial, The Observer, London)
  
  
• Archbishop of Canterbury ventures to Africa and the heart of gay bishops row | In his first official overseas trip to a province of the Anglican Communion, he will go to Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia, whose bishop, Dr Tilewa Johnson, was one of the most fierce African voices raised against the recent plan to appoint an openly homosexual man to the post of Bishop of Reading (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Also: Archbishop starts Africa visit | The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams begins a seven-day pastoral visit to Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia on Wednesday (BBC)
  
  

New Hampshire's gay Episcopal bishop:

• Homosexuality issue threatens to break Anglicanism in two | The election last month of an openly gay bishop in the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire is now threatening to crack open the long-existing fault line over homosexuality in the worldwide Anglican Communion, a global association of churches in 164 countries (The New York Times)
  
  
• 24 Episcopal bishops break with diocese | The move is in protest to a Canadian district's blessing of same-sex couples. The issue has increasingly divided Anglicans worldwide (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Vote on NH bishop could provoke Anglican split | Canon V. Gene Robinson seems an unlikely man to cause a schism (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Gay bishop-to-be will take on evangelicals | In his first British interview, canon says consecration should not split church (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• U.S. gay bishop asks for blessing (BBC)
  
  
• The primetime Mover | Human failings and dilemmas are the stuff of soaps - and the church (Cristina Odone, The Guardian, London)
  
  

Clergy sex abuse:

• Reverend cleared of sex assault charges | Baptist minister Leon Lowery's son blamed charges on church dispute over finances (The Times Herald, Norristown, Penn.)
  
  
• The Church must support the victims | The leading campaigner on sexual abuse by clergy says that the churches must stop sweeping exploitation under the carpet - and calls for a change in the law to ban clergy involving those in their pastoral care in sexual relationships (Margaret Kennedy, The Observer, London)
  
  
• Also: Churches accused of cover-up over sex attacks | An investigation has uncovered more than 60 cases where women have alleged they were abused by clerics from all denominations (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Pastor pleads innocent in abuse case | First Evangelical Free Church of Moline is looking for a new pastor (The Dispatch, Moline, Ill.)
  
  
• Boston church abuse report to be released | Abuse victims angry that church supervisors overseeing abusive priests might not be charged (Associated Press)
  
  

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