At least ten Primates from the Global South are now expected to boycott the Primates’ Meeting in Dublin in January. Five African Primates, members of the GAFCON Primates’ Council (See http://www.gafcon.org/ ) confirmed that they would not attend the two-yearly meeting. In addition, it is understood that the Primate of South-East Asia, the Primate in Jerusalem & the Middle East, and the Primate of the Indian Ocean, will not go to Dublin. Furthermore it is expected that two new Primates, Primate of the Southern Cone, and the Primate of Rwanda, will also boycott the meeting. Five further Primates, from West Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya — say they ‘join with other Primates from the Global South in declaring that we will not be present’. They acknowledge the Anglican Covenant is ‘well-intentioned’ but say they ‘have come to the conclusion the current text is fatally flawed’. In response, Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, said: ‘The decision whether to come remains a matter for the Primates’.
Pray: for the Anglican Covenant to succeed in representing the broadest sense of Anglicanism. (1Co.13:1)