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The biggest story of 2023 came out of Africa

Posted on 31/12/2023 by John Sandeman
Gamasara church portrai

On an April Sunday, The Other Cheek was one of two Westerners to visit Gamasara church in a remote part of Tanzania. I went to Africa to report the worldwide gathering of Anglicans known as Gafcon (the Global African Future… Continue Reading →

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Celibate gay Christian calls on Gafcon to dissociate itself from Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality law

Posted on 06/06/2023 by John Sandeman
David Bennett, speaking at Holy Trinity Cambridge

David Bennett, whose journey from gay student activist to a celibate follower of Jesus is chronicled in his book A War of Loves, has called on the conservative Anglican movement Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures Conference) to dissociate itself from new… Continue Reading →

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The ‘elephant in the room’ at Gafcon’s Kigali meeting

Posted on 31/05/2023 by John Sandeman
Richard Coekin interviewed by Dominic Steele

Africa is the place to find Elephants, and Dominic Steele, the host of “The Pastor’s Heart” video cast and a prominent Sydney Anglican Minister, reports on what he calls the “elephant in the room” at the Gafcon 4 conference in… Continue Reading →

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The Other Cheek is off to Africa this weekend: the future of evangelicals in the Anglican Communion is at stake

Posted on 14/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Gafcon logo

The Other Cheek is going to Africa this weekend. Destination: Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The reason: the meeting of Gafcon – the Global Anglican Futures Conference, which draws together the evangelicals, charismatics and conservative Anglo Catholics who make up… Continue Reading →

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Gafcon’s Southern Cross diocese gets a woman minister, and church number four

Posted on 30/01/2023 by John Sandeman
Linley-MatthewsWant

New Beginnings Church in Mandurah, Western Australia, is the first church in the new Diocese of the Southern Cross, (formed as a home for conservative Anglicans) to have a woman minister. The Revd Linley MatthewsWant was licensed as pastor by… Continue Reading →

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Third church joins Gafcon’s new Anglican ‘breakaway’

Posted on 11/01/2023 by John Sandeman
Northern Hope Anglican launch

Cairns is the location of the third local church in the new “Diocese of the Southern Cross,” formed by the conservative Anglican Network Gafcon (Global Anglican Futures Conference). Trevor Saggers, minister at Good Shepherd Church in Cairns, has left that… Continue Reading →

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