Africa to Control its Own Lambeth '08 Agenda Says Global South Head

The Anglican Church of Kenya head, Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, who leads four million Kenyan Evangelical Anglicans, and who is the leader of the Global South, has said that the next Lambeth 2008 will not be controlled by the Anglican Consultative Council, according to Virtue Online.

Archbishop Nzimbi recently returned to Nairobi from a meeting of East African Primates in Tanzania, where it was agreed that procedures for Lambeth 2008 would be flexible for everybody, therefore allowing more contributions from participants being able to join talks in their native tongues.

In particular, in an interview with Virtue Online, the Kenyan head refused to rule out the possibility that Africans would hold their own Lambeth 2008 entirely separate from the worldwide Anglican Communion meeting scheduled.

It seems that the tear in the fabric of the Communion has aroused suspicions across the worldwide Anglican Churches, and due to the recent actions of the Episcopal Church in America’s General Convention in Columbus, Ohio and its failure to obey the demands of the Windsor Report, the African Anglican Churches have grown weary of attempts to keep a divided Communion together.