MTHATHA, South Africa — The Vatican’s recent declaration allowing the blessing of same-sex couples caused a stir around the world, but perhaps most of all in Africa, a rising center
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It is out of step with the continent’s values, many bishops say, and threatens to derail expansion in the church’s fastest growing region in the world.
African Catholic leaders are concerned that in a place where the church is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, and where many forms of Christianity are competing for worshippers, the declaration on same-sex blessings could slow the church’s expansion on the continent.