The Anglican Bishops of Uganda will boycott the "Lambeth Conference", the meeting which every ten years gathers the 38 Anglican primates, t protest against the American Episcopal Church, which ordains gay pastors and blesses gay marriages. For the same reason, the bishops of the diocese of Sydney, Australia, of Nigeria and Rwanda, will not attend this year’s meeting in Canterbury from 16th July to 4th August. According to the British press, the diocese of Kenya will not go to Canterbury either, but the official announcement has been postponed due to the difficult political situation in the country. Nearly one quarter of the 880 Anglican Bishops will not attend the Lambeth conference, considered one of the four instruments of unity. The majority of the dissident Bishops will attend an alternative conference, the "Global Anglican Future conference", organised by conservative evangelicals in Israel in June. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the theological leader of seventy million Anglicans across the world, did not invite to the "Lambeth Conference" the gay bishop of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson, whose ordination in 2003 caused divisions about the problem of homosexuality between the Anglicans, in the attempt to calm down the most conservative dioceses. ” ” ” “
