On its Facebook page, the Presbyterian Church of Ghana announced a decision by its recent 2011 General Assembly to “sever relationship with any partner church that ordained homosexuals as ministers and allowed for same-sex marriages.”
The U.S. denomination in July removed from its constitution language that restricted ordination to those promising to practice fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness. Now, candidates for ordination in the PC(USA) must promise to “submit joyfully to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life.”
On Aug. 19, a special assembly of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico voted 116-22 to end its 139 years of mission partnership with the PC(USA).
