This is Patrick Taulo Chabviaka. He is the new volunteer Campaigns Coordinator in the Leeds Diocese CAFOD Volunteer Centre. Patrick says about himself: “I come from Malawi which is a land locked tiny country on the South eastern part of Africa. Inspired by my modest upbringing and experience of being born in one of the […]
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16 Jan 17 – A new face around the Leeds CAFOD Volunteer Centre
This is Nikki Evans who is the CAFOD Programme Officer for Bolivia, supporting the ten partner organisations that CAFOD works with in that country. Nikki is part of the CAFOD Head Office team in London. However, she currently lives in Saltaire. So, CAFOD have agreed that she can work 3 days a week in London […]
14 Nov 16 Refugee Action at Holy Redeemer parish Huddersfield
by Sr.Eleanor of the Presentation Sisters in Huddersfield. On the afternoon of Sunday, 13th November, about 30 parishioners came together at St Patrick’s, in the parish of the Holy Redeemer, Huddersfield, to pray and be in solidarity with refugees across the world. We used the CAFOD Solidarity Pilgrimage as a basis for our liturgy and […]
16 OCT 16 Lampedusa Cross & Pilgrimage to Ripon
Last month a group of Catholics walked 35 miles over two days to show solidarity with refugees and honour of Our Lady and of St Wilfrid, the great Diocesan saint of the Leeds Diocese. The pilgrimage was launched on 6 October to show how local people are supporting and raising awareness of the refugee crisis […]
09 OCT 16 – Garforth Parish achieves ‘greenest in Leeds’ award.
St Benedict’s in Garforth recently celebrated gaining the Live Simply award and much of the following is courtesy of Katie Binns of the Leeds CAFOD office. The prestigious award, achieved by only 20 other parishes in England and Wales, was awarded to the parish in June with the official award ceremony at St Benedict’s on […]
01 SEP 16 – Leeds CAFOD Office presents Lampedusa cross to Bishop Marcus
CAFOD is undertaking significant work with refugees in various parts of the world. However, as well as the practical help it provides it is also campaigning to raise awareness among the whole Catholic Community in England and Wales about the plight of refugees and encouraging everyone to write messages of hope to be presented at […]
Open Commission Meeting in Skipton 26 Nov 15
This write up also appears in the December 2015 Newsletter Commission members, at the moment, mainly come from Leeds. To ensure that we understand better what social justice campaigning and other activity is going on around the diocese we are planning on having meetings across the diocese over the course of the next 12 months. […]