Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon issues strong rebuke to peddlers of Anglican Communion “fake news”

Sep 5, 2018 by Jill

from ACNS:

The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, has strongly condemned people who “militantly present falsehoods” about the Communion, despite knowing that what they are saying is untrue. Dr Idowu-Fearon made his comments as he gave his annual report to the Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council, at the start of their four-day meeting in London. The Secretary General told the Committee members that “listening to what is going on in the Communion has been very encouraging”.

He highlighted a number of areas of what he called “rumours and gossip”, including the decision to move the next meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council from Brazil to Hong Kong. The decision was taken, he reminded the Standing Committee, after the then-Primate of Brazil, Bishop Francisco de Assis da Silva, said that his province could not host the meeting because of economic, political and provincial difficulties. “We owe it to him to let people know the truth”, he said. “Please tell people the true story before spinners go to work.”

He also dismissed allegations that the Anglican Communion had gone back on what the Primates requested at the end of their January 2016 meeting, when they agreed “consequences” on the US-based Episcopal Church over its decision to change its canons on marriage. “Everything asked for in the communiqué, has been done,” he said.

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