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Wed 02 Feb 2007Anglican leaders meet to prevent split over gay issueTANZANIA:The leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans arrived in Tanzania yesterday in an attempt to prevent the church from splitting over the issue of gay clergy.Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, invoked the power of prayer as he flew in with a series of compromises designed to prevent schism.