AN ANGLICAN bishop is being officially investigated for misconduct in an unprecedented case that could cost the Australian church nearly a third of its financial reserves.

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The Anglican Church in Australia says it has begun implementing recommendations of a major report aimed at preventing child sexual abuse in its ranks.

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Plans to promote medical treatment for homosexuality at a religious conference have been criticised by doctors.

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Condoms alone have not made society more promiscuous, the Anglican Dean of Sydney says, in comments prompted by controversy about AIDS.

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The Church of England today voted overwhelmingly in favour of banning clergy from belonging to the British National Party.

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It may be the ultimate relaxation break: beautiful medieval buildings, smiling hosts and a spot of gentle gardening to pass the time. But the 5am prayers could be a nasty jolt.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the Anglican church of allowing its "obsession" with homosexuality to come before real action on world poverty.

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As the Lambeth conference in Canterbury was drawing to a close, Michael Causer died. He was not an Anglican bishop, but an 18-year-old hairdresser, a popular lad described by his family as "definitely a 'people's person'.

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Feminists and Homophobes have destroyed a unique four-hundred-and fifty-year-old English compromise

It hath been the wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first compiling of her publick Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it. (Preface to the 1662 Prayer Book)

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As the Lambeth conference proceeds in Canterbury, gay and lesbian Anglicans find themselves, once again, on the communion chopping block.

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The gay bishop of New Hampshire should resign in order to save the Anglican Communion, a senior African archbishop said today.

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An influential US bishop has attacked African leaders for treating him and his church as a "punchbag".

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Openly gay US bishop Gene Robinson was forced to halt a sermon at a west London church after being heckled. As Bishop Robinson began his sermon a member of the congregation repeatedly called him a "heretic" and said "repent, repent, repent".

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Sir Ian McKellen today waded into the row over gay clergy that has engulfed the Anglican communion, accusing the church of homophobia.

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Authorities in Northern Ireland say 19 people were injured in clashes between rioters and police ahead of a day of Protestant parades to mark a 1690 victory over Catholics.

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The Vatican has said it regrets a decision by the Church of England to allow women bishops, saying that the ruling would present a "new obstacle" to reconciliation between the Holy See and the Anglican communion.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury last night directly challenged the rebel Anglicans who have launched a breakaway faction within the global communion. In unusually forthright language, he accused them of lacking legitimacy, authority and, by implication, integrity.

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Conservative evangelicals representing half of the world's Anglicans launched a new global church yesterday, challenging the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and vowing to rescue people from the forces of "militant secularism and pluralism" created by a "spiritual declin …

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Traditionalists in the Anglican Church have been angered by reports that two gay clergymen have exchanged vows in a version of a marriage ceremony.

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The Anglican Church could face more compensation claims as a result of the Mullighan Inquiry into abused state wards in South Australia.

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Gene Robinson, from New Hampshire, accuses Rowan Williams of failing to stand up to Christian traditionalists who denounce the bishop's life as an abomination of the Bible's teachings, and threaten the communion with schism for not shunning him.

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Australia is set to have its first female Anglican bishop. The Venerable Kay Goldsworthy, 51, will be consecrated on May 22 at St George's Cathedral in Perth.

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Ronald H. Haines, the former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington who ordained a lesbian priest and presided over the marriage of Vice President Al Gore's daughter, has died. He was 73.

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A PLAY that depicts Jesus as a gay man who is seduced by Judas and conducts a gay marriage for two apostles has been condemned by religious leaders as it prepares to open in Sydney.

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