London, England, Jul 9, 2007 / 09:06 am
The Church of England's ruling body has given the green light for a covenant agreement, which would aim to commit the Anglican Communion's separate churches to specific procedures for solving disputes, reported the BBC.
The General Synod, meeting in York, said it supported drawing up the rules.
"Unless we can make a fresh statement clearly and basically of what holds us together we are destined to grow apart," said Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies, who chaired the group meeting.
The synod rejected a motion to oppose the draft covenant, proposed by Tim Cox from the Diocese of Blackburn.