Updated 9.30 pm London time
No progress. Jonathan Petre has written this for the Telegraph: Anglican crisis talks ‘to last into the night’.
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The final communique is delayed by several hours. The latest information is that a press conference will be held at 11 pm Tanzanian time, or 8 pm London time.
Meanwhile the Church Times has published Primates’ meeting ends.
Other sites are reporting the delay thus:
daily episcopalian Pres[s] conference delayed
Anglican Mainstream More latest news
inclusive church blog Breaking: Press conference delayed
Dave Walker has this cartoon.
Posted by Simon Sarmiento on Monday, 19 February 2007 at 6:08pm GMT | TrackBackBREAKING NEWS: Nothing happened!!!
The joys of the 24-hour news cycle.
Posted by: Chris on Monday, 19 February 2007 at 7:30pm GMTThanks for your superb and comprehensive coverage.
Posted by: Robert Ian Williams on Monday, 19 February 2007 at 7:48pm GMTI thought you might be interested in Ruth's report here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1409085.ece
Still, things look better for the American and Canadian Church than we expected only two weeks ago.
And I know that I shouldn't, really, but I couldn't resist posting a song for the traditionalists over on my own blog. And yes, after weeks of reading how the awful liberals and wicked gays and lesbians and upity ordained women were going to get what was coming in Tanzania, it is time for a song.
http://denniswine.blogspot.com/2007/02/song-for-religious-conservatives-today.html
Posted by: Dennis on Monday, 19 February 2007 at 9:34pm GMTHow did Petre put it? "A rump of hardline conservatives." This may be a normal Britishism, but it looks awfully funny to American eyes (along with the unintentional but inescapable image of primates). Yet one more instance of the militants hindering forward progress and blaming anyone but themselves (if the proposed covenant can be considered forward progress, which I think is debateable.)
Posted by: Marc on Monday, 19 February 2007 at 10:06pm GMTInteresting to read reports on Daily Episcopalian that Peter Akinola is the only primate unwilling to sign the communique. Perhaps it will be necessary to establish a Convocation of Anglicans in NigeriA (CANA) to provide alternative episcopal oversight to those out of step with their Archbishop's divisive action. Presumably the Rt Rev will have no objections?
Posted by: Matt on Monday, 19 February 2007 at 10:13pm GMT