Gangs of rioters armed with machetes and shotguns poured through the streets of the mainly Christian southern city of Onitsha today as the death toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence across Nigeria rose to at least 76.

Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man elevated to that rank in any major Christian denomination, said today that the church will survive the tumult surrounding his election.

ANGLICANS did not have to wait long for the backlash following the consecration of a gay bishop by the allied Episcopal church in the US.

Anglicans did not have to wait long for the backlash following the consecration of a gay bishop by the allied Episcopal church in the US.