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 ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) - The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called Sunday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans, meeting in Tanzania for a conference that ends Monday, traveled by boat from the mainland for a Holy Eucharist in Zanzibar, a predominantly Muslim archipelago on the Indian Ocean.
The Anglican Communion is struggling with a rift over ordaining gays and blessing same-sex unions, which reached a crisis in 2003 when the Episcopal Church — the U.S. wing of the fellowship — consecrated its first gay bishop. Last year, the U.S. church elected its first female leader, Katharine Jefferts Schori, fueling the divide.
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