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• Hardline preaching greets crisis summit on gay clergy | Protesters gather outside Lambeth Palace (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Protests on streets over gay priest | As the talks began, various groups attempted to sway opinion among the primates (Evening Standard, London)
  
  
• A protest for the orthodox faith | Last week's remarkable gathering of Episcopalians in Dallas was unlike anything I have seen in more than 10 years as a bishop (Jack Iker, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  
• Canadian clerics want U.S. groups to 'stay home' | Anglican archbishops angered by interference in same-sex debate (Vancouver Sun)
  
  
• Nigerians protest gay priests, bishops | Nigeria's Anglican Church held a day of fasting and prayers Monday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Anglican Church renounces ordination of gays | The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has renounced in its entirety the declaration by some dioceses in Canada, the United Kingdom and America to ordain and recognise the gays within the priesthood as well as accept homosexuals for marriages, describing the move as not only madness but satanic (This Day, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Anglican Church risks fracture over calls for change | Role of gays among issues on agenda for pivotal meeting (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Head to head: Gay church debate | Two Anglicans face off (BBC)
  
  

Other Anglican issues:

• Melbourne synod votes to ordain women bishops | The Melbourne synod was expected to await approval of the motion at the national synod next October—a motion the powerful and conservative Sydney diocese is expected to vehemently oppose (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Western Oregon's Episcopalians have a new leader | The Rt. Rev. Johncy Itty: Bishop will offer guidance to church 'family' (The Oregonian)
  
  

Global Christianity:

• Faith fades where it once burned strong | In much of Europe the ties of Christianity no longer bind the way they once did — and often seem not to bind at all (The New York Times)
  
  
• Where faith grows, fired by Pentecostalism | Growth in the developing world is changing the Christian faith and other religions in a competition for souls (The New York Times)
  
  
• Embracing world to save souls now | Assemblies of God members overseas outnumber adherents in U.S. (News-Leader, Springfield, Mo.)
  
  

Homosexuality and the church:

• Gay couple ejected from Catholic choir | Two gay men from Yonkers who married in Canada two weeks ago have been removed from the choir at a Catholic church in the Bronx after their wedding received broad publicity (The Journal News, Westchester, N.Y.)
  
  
• Also: Bronx Catholic parish insists wedded gays leave choir (The New York Times)
  
  
• Earlier: Defining Marriage | Conservatives advocate amendment to preserve traditional matrimony (Christianity Today, Oct. 1, 2001)
  
  
• Makiki church leaders oust gay pastor | Internal politics and his public activism led to the move, says the Rev. Vaughn Beckman (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
  
  
• Gay clergy row steels 'no' resolve | The Presbyterian Church of Victoria has taken a strong stand against homosexuality and expressed its "deepest regret" that other denominations have approved gay ordination (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Taking a different path | Princeton United Church of Christ congregation forms own, more accepting church (Peoria Journal Star, Ill.)
  
  
• Gay Catholics struggle to maintain faith in church | It's not easy being both gay and Catholic lately (The Boston Globe)
  
  

Church life:

• Irreverent tones | Nothing rankles clergy like ringing phones (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

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