As the United Methodist Church’s global Council of Bishops meets in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, the Bishops of the Central Conferences of Africa have just released a statement from their own recent fall meeting at which they examined their own work as well as issues confronting the Church globally. The African bishops’ statement spoke strongly about the crises of Islamic terrorism and unorthodox teachings on sexuality, topics largely avoided by many of their more politically correct American counterparts. The statement is unapologetically bold in its condemnation of homosexual practices as well as all sex outside of monogamous marriage between husband and wife.

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