First of all a roundup of some of the many news reports from the past couple of days:

• From the latest Church Times: GAFCON and the parting of the ways
• New York Times: Conservative Anglicans Plan Rival Conference as Split Over Homosexuality Grows
• George Pitcher: Hard-line bishops make a mess of it in the Holy Land
• Guardian: Conservatives rule out Anglican reconciliation on gay clergy (See also Stephen Bates)
• Time Magazine: Are the Anglicans About to Split?
• The Age: Church rebels are 'true believers'
• Independent: Minority Report: Gafcon, the gay elephant in the Anglican Church's room

This evening Peter Akinola, Archbishop of Nigeria gave an opening address:

• GAFCON site: Text of the opening address
• Telegraph: Primate of Nigeria vows to rescue Anglican church from crisis over sexuality
• Guardian: Williams accused of leading church into crisis
• Ruth Gledhill, on her blog: Archbishop Akinola on error and apostasy
• Mark Harris: Leader Akinola's opening salvo: we are apostate, revisionist, destructive and in error.

A number of bloggers and others are at the GAFCON conference:

• I hope to post one or two updates from Paul Handley of the Church Times
• If you are very lucky you might catch some of the live GAFCON video stream provided by 'Anglican TV'. It did work for a few minutes earlier on this evening. I heard a hymn.
• Ruth Gledhill, as mentioned above
• From Scotland: GadgetVicar
• Tim Morgan of Christianity Today