Anglican Church in North America Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Interfaith=== In August 2010, the executive committee approved the creation of a task force on "[[Islam]] and [[Interfaith dialogue|interfaith]] engagement". Regarding the task force, [[Julian Dobbs]], a member of the ACNA College of Bishops and Missionary Bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, stated, "we need to undertake a prayerful, sensitive and honest approach to the issues involved".<ref name=Islamtaskforce>Anglican Church in North America, [http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/146 Executive Committee Calls for Task Force on 'Islam and Interfaith Engagement'"]. Accessed July 13, 2011.</ref> In its 2011 annual report, the ACNA said it was forming partnerships with [[Messianic Judaism|Messianic Jewish]] groups to proselytize.<ref name="TheApostle" /> Archbishop Foley Beach and Bishop Charlie Masters, of ACNA, met the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, [[Ahmed el-Tayeb]], when he welcomed a delegation of several [[Global South (Anglican)|Global South]] representatives during their visit to [[Egypt]] in November 2015. Ahmed el-Tayeb expressed the "importance of the partnership and collegiality between religious leaders for the common good of humanity" and his solidarity with the Anglican realignment. He also stated that Christians and Muslims should be united in their opposition to the pressure for the acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexual practice, especially in the western world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://virtueonline.org/egypt-anglican-archbishops-meet-grand-imam-al-azhar|title=EGYPT: Anglican Archbishops Meet With the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar | VirtueOnline β The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism|website=virtueonline.org}}</ref>{{self-published source|date=August 2018}}{{unreliable source?|certain=y|date=August 2018}} He visited [[Pakistan]] in November 2019, at invitation of the Kul Masalak Ulama Board Leadership, where he attended an interfaith gathering with Muslim scholars, in [[Lahore]], on 19 November 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/11/20/american-archbishop-lauds-cop-for-uniting-church-leaders/|title=American archbishop lauds CoP for uniting church leaders, Pakistan Today, 20 November 2019}}</ref> In the wake of the terrorist attack to the [[Tree of Life β Or L'Simcha Congregation|Tree of Life]] Synagogue, in [[Pittsburgh]], on October 27, 2018, Archbishop Beach expressed his full solidarity with the Jewish communities of the United States and endorsed the "ShowUpForShabbat" initiative by which ACNA parish members were to attend local synagogues for the [[Shabbat]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Call to Solidarity |url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1739 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124074401/http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1739 |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page