Moral message needed in the West Indies: CEN 12.07.07 p 6. December 9, 2007
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Strengthening the family in the face of social change will reverse the social decay facing much of the Caribbean, the West Indies said at its General Synod last week. The rise in crime, broken families and a wounded and perverse view of sexuality were moral problems that needed to be addressed by a reaffirmation of right doctrine and Biblical truths, delegates to the Nov 24-29 meeting at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Antigua (pictured) said.
The sixty delegates from the eight Caribbean dioceses stretching from Belize to Guyana affirmed the church’s traditional teachings on marriage and human sexuality, backing the 1998 Lambeth Resolution on human sexuality, and pledged to continue working towards the creation of an Anglican Communion Covenant.
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