The chair of a conservative group of Anglican church leaders on Wednesday accused the church's global head of perpetuating colonialism with his criticism of one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, introduced by Uganda last month.
Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion's 85 million members, said last week he had written to Ugandan Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba to expressThe legislation imposes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts and a 20-year prison sentence for "promoting" homosexuality.including threats by U.S. President Joe Biden and others to cut aid to Uganda and impose other sanctions.
The statement by Mbanda, who is also the head of Rwanda's Anglican Church, mentioned but did not explicitly offer support for the Ugandan law. Anglicans created GAFCON in 2008 in response to what the group says was certain Western churches' abandonment of bible-based orthodoxy. It claims to represent the majority of all Anglicans worldwide.
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