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New Vision (Kampala)
November 7, 2003 Posted to the web November 7, 2003
Richard Komakech And Geoffrey Ntabaazi Kampala
Americans are cutting funding to local churches after Anglicans rejected newly-consecrated gay bishop Gene Robinson.
Out-going Church of Uganda Archbishop Mpalanyi Nkoyooyo yesterday said he had received warnings from American church aid organisations and charities about Ugandan opposition to the bishop.
Many African, Asian and Latin American countries rejected the consecration of the first openly gay clergy in the Anglican communion as Bishop of North Hemisphere in the United States.
They said it violated church ethics and biblical teachings in which the Anglican Communion was rooted.
Nkoyooyo, in a sermon during a farewell service for him in Kazo, north of Kampala, urged Anglicans to strongly stand against pro-west cultures that threatened to destroy African culture.
He urged Anglicans worldwide to work harder and provide funding for their church activities and continue spreading the faith.
"The West introduced us to the faith but it seems they have run out of ideas on which way to go.
"They are confused about the Bible and want to destroy the church," he said.
He added, "These people have been giving us money and there is some that was about to come, but the gay issue is now riding at the centre of their favours, which we shall not accept."
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