As the long Summer holidays start and people go on holiday, contributions to foodbanks tend to dip. However, this is going on whilst, at the same time there is a year on year increase in the demands being made on foodbanks. Towards the end of June, the Leeds evening Post ran a story with information […]
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24 July – Refugee Action in the Leeds Diocese Updates
Share the Journey Walks Various walks have now taken place in support of the international Share the Journey campaign, managed in the UK by CAFOD. Last month we highlighted the plans for one walk – by the Garforth Refugee Support Group walking from Garforth to the Home Office centre on Kirkstall Road in Leeds. Most […]
18 Jul – Live Simply in the Leeds Diocese – Updates
Our Lady of Kirkstall Parish, Leeds This parish is now well into carrying out the plan developed and presented to the Parish Council in the middle of last year. Michael Emly writes: Since January, steady progress has been maintained in implementing our Action Plan. Our planning group continues to meet at approximately 2 monthly intervals […]
12 Jun – Family Poverty Project update
As previously reported, the Commission has obtained a grant from the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to follow up our workshop about Family Poverty with a programme of small group meetings suitable for use in parishes and other small groups. We are delighted to announce that we are partnering with Church Action on Poverty […]
10 May – Share the Journey
Pope Francis launched the ‘Share the Journey’ campaign in September 2017. The campaign is about getting world leaders to endorse new UN agreements on refugees and migration – and they are meeting at the UN in September where there is an opportunity to do this. There are petitions to sign and, in particular, the campaign […]
19 Apr – CAFOD’s work in El Salvador & Nicaragua
by Sophie Aulton the CAFOD Step into the Gap volunteer at Leeds Trinity University. I have recently returned from a two-and-a-half-week trip to El Salvador and Nicaragua as part of my gap year on CAFODs Step into the Gap programme for 18-30 year olds. Before the trip, I had few expectations never having visited a […]
17 Apr – A Carmelite approach to Justice
This was originally scheduled to take place in March but for a variety of reasons this was not possible.Having to re-arrange the date of this event meant that there were less people who were able to go. However, the dozen people who were able to attend had a delightful day – helped by some lovely […]