CofE Evangelicals welcome Primates' communique

Evangelicals in the Church of England have issued a statement of support on the recent communiqué on the Episcopal Church of the USA by the Primates of the Anglican Communion in Tanzania.

The Tanzania communiqué asks that the US Episcopal Church "make an unequivocal common covenant" by September 30 in which it gives the assurance that it will not authorise same-gender blessings or consecrate gay bishops unless the green light for such consecrations is given communion-wide.

David Banting, chairman of Reform, a network of mainstream Anglican evangelicals in the Church of England, welcomed the communiqué and the agreement among Primates in Tanzania that “the false teaching eating away at the life of the Communion should not be allowed to continue indefinitely”. Read more