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Title: Tanzanian Bishop, African Churches Comment on ELCA Assembly Decisions
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>April 7, 2010  

Tanzanian Bishop, African Churches Comment on ELCA Assembly Decisions
10-108-JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Tanzania (ELCT) said in an Easter sermon that the ELCT does not
support certain decisions of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) nor the Church of Sweden's
decision to allow its clergy to conduct same-gender marriages.

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