Church urges debt cancellation

Canterbury - Anglican Church leaders yesterday called for a sweeping write-off of international debt to give developing nations…

Canterbury - Anglican Church leaders yesterday called for a sweeping write-off of international debt to give developing nations a chance to build for the future.

As divisions over gay rights in the church rumbled on at the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops representing 80 million people around the world, they united behind a common cause - the eradication of poverty.

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