More must be done to help children caught in the “intolerable” poverty trap in Ireland, a senior cleric said today.

The leaders of the Anglican Communion around the world are meeting in Northern Ireland this week to discuss the crisis surrounding homosexuality in the church and the appointment of an openly gay bishop in the United States.

AN Anglican church commission sharply criticised the US Episcopal Church yesterday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologise and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.

The global Anglican Communion is ”broken” over the confirmation of a gay bishop in New Hampshire and may be beyond repair, the most influential Anglican leader in Africa said today.

The approval of a gay bishop in New Hampshire fractured the church to such an extent that “we are in danger”, former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has told a summit of Anglican leaders.