Toppling slave traders: we wouldn’t name a school after Jimmy Savile, would we?
By Lianne Kolirin, 16 June 2020 Statues, which have for decades, if not centuries, peered down silently on oblivious passers-by, have in recent days leapt to the top of the news agenda. Chief among them has been that of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston, which was toppled during a Black Lives Matter demonstration on 7 […]
Archbishops condemn West Bank annexation
By Lianne Kolirin, 16 June 2020 The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster have written to Israel’s ambassador to Britain to protest against Israel’s plan to annex West Bank territory next month. In a highly unusual move, the Most Rev Justin Welby has joined forces with Cardinal Vincent Nichols, head of the […]
Religion News 16 June
The Bishop of St Asaph, in north Wales, says the two statues of the explorer of Africa, Henry Morton Stanley, should be taken down. The Rt Rev Gregory Cameron told Premier Christian Radio that they were only put up in 2010 and 2011 and he had protested then. Stanley was born in Denbigh and travelled […]
