Nigeria: Africa's Anglican Bishops' Meeting Starts 'Morrow

26 October 2004

Lagos — DUE principally to the threat from homosexual-ism among their Western brethren, Anglican bishops in Africa seeking to eke out a separate identity for themselves, converge on Lagos tomorrow for a continental conference on burning issues in the church.

The conference, the first of its kind in the church's 160 years of existence on the continent, will be declared open by President Olusegun Obasanjo.

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