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CONFERENCE GATHERS
STATEMENT BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH, THE MOST REVEREND ROBIN EAMES
Canterbury
The Lambeth Conference starts today when bishops from across the Anglican Communion will meet at Canterbury over the next three weeks.
The Lambeth Conference is about relationships, relationships that affect everyone here and every human being: communities. We will be exploring the relationships between rich and poor, and our relationship with people of other faiths, particularly with Islam.
We will experience our relationships through meeting together as leaders of the Anglican Communion and with other Christian traditions so that we can show and advance God's love in the world. The Lambeth Conference is about the total spectrum of human relationships in community.
One of the four sections within which bishops will work is dealing with what it means to be fully human. They will be looking at human rights and the negation of human dignity, international debt and economic justice, the environment, modern technology, euthanasia, and human sexuality.
Note for the editors
Archbishop Robin Eames is chairman of the Episcopal Communicators team at the conference. More than 730 bishops and 600 spouses will attend. Ecumenical guests also will be present.
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