"An attempt to eject Anglicans from the US and Canada from all meetings of the Anglican Communion for the next three years was narrowly defeated on Wednesday". "The ACC [Anglican Consultative Council] delegates went into a closed session on Wednesday afternoon, which stretched an hour over time. Eventually it emerged that they had held a secret ballot about the clause. It was rejected by 30 votes to 28, with four abstentions". "The original resolution had been proposed by Stanley Isaacs (South East Asia), and supported by representatives from several other African provinces, among them the Most Rev. Peter Akinola, Primate of Nigeria. The only English supporter was Elizabeth Paver". "The other significant vote on Wednesday was to change the ACC constitution to include the 37 Primates as ex-officio members. The move will increasing the member from 70 to 115, and tip the balance heavily towards ordained members".
Delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council complained that too much time was being spent on navel-gazing instead of dealing with the real problems in the world.
An estimated 2.5 million people have visited Toronto since 1994 and the Airport Christian Fellowship still regularly attracts 2000 people to services six nights a week, up to whom half are visitors.
The Evangelical Alliance is about to publish a report, "Learning from Toronto" about the Toronto Blessing.
The congregation that describes itself as "All Saints Anglican Church Algarve" is the first in the diocese in Europe to receive episcopal oversight from bishops in Africa.
The Churches in Ireland should agree a common admission of guilt for their part in the wrongs of centuries, a prominent Anglican ecumenist said yesterday.
More than three years after the Church of Ireland ordained its first woman priest, resignations and schisms thought possible have still not happened. There are now 13 women ordained priests.
Two men have been ordained priests for the Traditional Rite.