Primates’ meeting: Tensions build as GAFCON hits back at ‘inaccurate and misleading’ Archbishop’s statement
by Harry Farley, Christian Today:
Tensions between two senior Nigerian clergy are at the heart of a fraught build-up to a meeting of global Anglican heads next month.
Primates, or leaders of the 39 provinces around the world, will gather for six days in Canterbury in October to discuss, among other topics, their disagreements over the Church’s approach to homosexuality and transgender people.
A number of conservatives have either announced their refusal to attend or are considering doing so with the most prominent figure to snub the Archbishop of Canterbury’s invitation so far being the Archbishop of Nigeria.
Responding to the revelation the arch-conservative Nicholas Okoh will boycott the conference in protest over a perceived liberal drift on sexuality, the secretary general of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, said he was ‘reneging’ on a promise.
‘At their [last] meeting in January 2016 the primates agreed to walk together,’ said Idowu-Fearon.
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