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Ugandan law widens Anglican Church rift over LGBTQ rights

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby attends the Church of England General Synod meeting in London, Britain, on 9th February, 2023.

Kigali, Rwanda Reuters The chair of a conservative group of Anglican church leaders on Wednesday accused the church’s global head of perpetuating colonialism with his criticism of one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, introduced by Uganda last month.  Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion’s 85 million […]

Protestant Council of Rwanda bars abortions in its clinics

FILE - A mother reaches out to hold the hand of her young daughter, as they walk home after a church service in the village of Rwinkwavu, near to Akagera National Park, in Rwanda on Sept. 6, 2015. The Protestant Council of Rwanda in Feb. 2023 has directed all health facilities run by its members to stop carrying out all abortions, further limiting access to the procedure in the largely Christian nation of 13 million people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Kigali, RwandaAP The Protestant Council of Rwanda has directed all health facilities run by its members to stop carrying out all abortions, further limiting access to the procedure in the largely Christian nation of 13 million people. The council’s decision earlier this month described abortion as a sin, echoing the stance of Rwanda’s more widely […]