Peter Blake is a former church warden and a leading figure in the Friends of All Saints in Maerdy, which protested at the closure of their local church in Rhondda and is considering taking up the building's lease.

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In 1992 he was working part time at All Saints' Church in Beverly Hills -- one of the nation's toniest Episcopal congregations -- where folks like billionaire Donald Bren are members.

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"We cannot be in fellowship with them when they violate the explicit scripture that the Anglican Church subscribes to, " said the Very Reverend Peter Karanja, provost of All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya.

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The commune, whose thousand or so residents are almost all progeny of the male founders, follows the precepts of the breakaway Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints based in Utah.

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