The Anglican Church in Uganda is leading a rift with the global co-mmunion over LGBT rights. There are deep divisions over the largely pro-LGBT Western churches and hardline anti-gay Anglican chur-ches in Africa and the Global South, reports PinkNews.
While the Canadian, Scottish and American churches have embraced gay bishops and same-sex unions, many African archbishops have shunned equality rights for the LGBT community.
Stanley Ntagali, the Arch-bishop of Uganda, has disclosed that he will not attend the next meeting of Anglican leaders citing the gradual acceptance of same-sex marriage by the church.
The 62-year-old who also doubles as Bishop of the Ugandan capital, Kampa-la, in an interview with the BBC said he was not prepared to engage with people who took ‘an unbiblical view of marriage.’ He made the comments after joining the global leader of the church, Justin Welby – Archbishop of Canterbury – to visit refugee camps in the country’s north. Welby is on an African tour that saw him visit Sudan where he declared the 39th province of the church in Khartoum.
