epic fundraising effort by Pudsey parishioner and peace campaigner TIm Devereux
Palestine
9 Dec – Red Carpet in Gaza
By Joe Burns, Commission member The Commission part-sponsored the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival event at Wheeler Hall on 30 November. Rather than an individual film, this event showed several short films. […]
27 Nov – Where Olive Trees Weep
The SPARK-sponsored film in the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival this year (the tenth year) was called ‘Where Olive Trees Weep’. The film cleverly cut between talking heads, filmed footage from […]
15 May – Leeds to Brighton for MAP
You may remember, from previous years, the incredible fundraising of Tim Devereux.For the last three years, he has cycled for four or five days in the summer, covering about 250 […]
25 Apr – Stop Arming Israel
By David Somerville, Our Lady & St Cuthbert parishOn the 2nd April, around 200 people joined a march organised by the Bradford Friends of Palestine in Baildon, Shipley to the […]
21 Dec – Partnership with Palestinian Film festival goes from Strength to Strength
Our involvement with the last film in this year’s Palestinian Film Festival, on 9th December, was sponsored by SPARK Social Justice – as there are always many younger people in […]
11 Dec – What can we do about the conflict in Gaza?
By Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax Christi grp ‘If we don’t learn to live together, we are doomed, this land will be our graveyard’ -these are the words of a […]