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Creating Connections: Religion and the media in Leeds
Leeds is a richly diverse city where communities came together during the pandemic and worked with the media to strengthen ties.
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Leeds is a richly diverse city where communities came together during the pandemic and worked with the media to strengthen ties.
The full itinerary for the Creating Connections event in Leeds on 14th October 2021.
Catholic bishops appeal to leaders to refrain from war; Calls for Equality and Human Rights Commission to investigate Islamophobia in the Conservative party; Former Pope Benedict XVI admits mistake in evidence to sex abuse inquiry
Winchester college Christian group operated “like a cult”; Bishop concerned at threat to BBC licence fee; Pope’s two close aides test positive for Covid; European Court decides Pastafarian church of the flying spaghetti monster is not a religion
Number Ten parties furore may re-assert integrity and truth in politics; Positive vibrations, chakras and star signs – British spiritual beliefs; Board of Deputies suspends senior vice president
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Migrant deaths in the channel “cannot go on”; Jersey politicians vote in favour of assisted dying; Warning to get vaccinated as Jewish festival of Hanukkah approaches; RMC Creating Connections project has drawn to a close
Pope praises Sir David Amess for years of public service; Orthodox monks trust God and science to protect them from Covid; ‘Too much Christianity’ in schools; Sixth formers help select a bishop
Sikh farmers win battle over farm laws in Punjab; Two of the 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti are freed; Catholic bishops urge the faithful to come back to church; More than 4,000 crimes in rural churches in one year
