Regional Anglicans fear Jerusalem conference could ‘inflame tensions’: JP 1.03.08 January 4, 2008
Posted by geoconger in Episcopal Church in Jerusalem & the Middle East, GAFCON, Jerusalem Post.trackback
Arab Anglican leaders have called for the cancellation of a June gathering of Anglicans in Jerusalem, claiming it could exacerbate Christian-Muslim tensions in the Palestinian territories.
On Wednesday, the Anglican bishop in Jerusalem, Suheil Darwani, released a statement saying the presence of hundreds of conservative Anglican bishops in the Holy Land would inject the Anglican Communion’s political disputes into the diocese of Jerusalem, and could also have “serious consequences for our ongoing ministry of reconciliation in this divided land.”
Read it all in The Jerusalem Post.
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