About 200 young people came together for the first Leeds Peacejam Conference (there has been a previous one in Bradford) on the weekend of the 25-26 November. Peacejam is an […]
Yorkshire
31 Oct – Update on Carbon reduction in the Leeds Diocese
In July we reported how the Commission had engaged with the University of Leeds for an MSc student on the Sustainability and Consulting course (Mohamed Juma) to evaluate whether the […]
27 Oct – Inter-generational Conversations on Faith and Justice
At the end of September some people from the Leeds Diocese attended a workshop in Salford Cathedral centre about this. The idea behind it is that there is value in […]
25 Oct – Diocesan Refugee Support Group: Grave Concerns about NHS Charging
Changes to the provision of NHS treatment have very recently come into effect.The Diocesan Refugee Support Group have been very concerned about this and asked the facilitator, Lucy Irven, to […]
30 Sep -Commission supports Bishop Malcolm McMahon on nuclear weapons
On September 19th there was a letter published in the Guardian urging the Government to sign up (having boycotted the talks about it) to the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. One […]
20 Sep – A Carmelite Approach to Justice
On Saturday 16 September the Commission held a Day of Reflection with the Carmelite nuns at their Wood Hall monastery, near Wetherby. We made the practical arrangements and they did […]
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 […]