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09/03/2007

US Anglicans join Kenyan Church

by BBC News

US Anglicans join Kenyan Church
Bishop Bill Atwood, left, and Bishop William Murdoch in All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi
The two men are the latest in a string of defections
Kenya's Anglican Church has consecrated two US bishops in a move likely to deepen a bitter row over homosexuality.

Bill Murdoch, of Massachusetts, and Bill Atwood, of Texas, will be answerable to the Kenyan Church, although they will serve in the US.

They left the US branch of the Anglican Church - the Episcopal Church - after it consecrated an openly gay bishop.

There are growing tensions within the Anglican denomination around the world, mainly over the issue of homosexuality.

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