From Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support Network We wanted to share this amazing initiative put together by the Together With Refugees campaign, entitled “A Fair New Plan For Refugees”. Below you can find an excerpt from their recent newsletter.
Refugees
08 Sep – World Day of Migrants & Refugees
By Kathy Shaw, SPARK Project ManagerThe Church has been celebrating the World Day of Migrants and Refugees on the last Sunday in September since 1914. It is always an occasion to highlight the need for global unity in supporting refugees; to pray for different vulnerable people on the move as they face many challenges; and […]
05 MAR 16 – Las Casas Conference ‘A poor church, for the poor?’
The Justice and Peace Commission were proud to be associated with this national level conference that took place at Leeds Trinity University on Saturday March 5th 2016. A full account of what happened at the conference can be read in our March 2016 newsletter (though it did gain some publicity in the national Catholic press […]
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. […]
Commission Meeting of 15 Sep 2015 – Key Points
The Commission agreed that it should start to make more details of its meetings available via this website. So here they are! – but rather than present the minutes per se we will attempt to convey the key points of each meeting so you can get a flavour of what was discussed. New website Our […]