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 […]
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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. […]
“God has broken Down the Dividing Walls” Conference about Palestine 26 Sep 15
This conference was organised jointly by the Commission and the Leeds Pax Christi group.We are grateful to the Christian Peace Education Fund which provided some financial support to the event. It was organised as part of the World Council of Churches\’ World Week for Peace in Israel and Palestine.It followed the format of our conference […]