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Zimbabwe’s top Anglican bishop says an excommunicated church leader close to the country’s president has taken over an orphanage housing 80 children as part of a schism over gay marriage.

A Maryland Episcopal parish will be the first in the United States to join the Roman Catholic Church under a new streamlined conversion process created by Pope Benedict XVI, leaders of both church groups said Monday.

More Anglican parishes in Canada may now bless same-sex nuptials, although clergy may not actually perform wedding rites for gay and lesbian families who are entering into marriage.

Anglican bishops on both sides of the issue of gay clergy have come together to discuss the issue, while a Presbyterian church trial has cleared a gay pastor who married his same-sex spouse in California in 2008.

Conservative Anglican leaders have rejected a proposed covenant to hold their global communion together just as the Church of England gave preliminary approval to the plan.

Five Church of England bishops announced Monday they are converting to Catholicism following an invitation to disaffected Anglicans from Pope Benedict XVI - the highest-profile defectors among conservatives opposed to gay bishops and female clergy.

The head of the Anglican church said that gay bishops are okay--as long as they refrain from sexual intimacy.

The child of a lesbian couple in a Fort Worth suburb has been rejected by an Anglican school because of her mothers’ sexuality and domestic living arrangement.

The news that an Anglican vicar in England intends to wed a male model less than half his age has created a stir in the U.K.

Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, a prominent figure in the African branch of the Anglican church, believes that gays and Muslims are trying to take over Africa--and he’s not shy about saying so.