Our Autumn Assembly
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The main topic of
our Autumn Assembly, held at St Peter's, Woolwich“
on 17th October was "The Changing Face of Britain” celebrating
25 years of CARJ (Catholic Association for Racial Justice).
The pictures show
Bishop Howard Tripp with Haynes Baptiste, one of the
speakers from CARJ and Bishop Pat Lynch with |
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Margaret Ann Fisken,
the Chair of CARJ, Tony Lobo and Richard Zipfel.
Other speakers were Mr Pat
Winston, head teacher from St Paul's Academy and Petra
Kjell, Environment Policy and Advocacy officer from
Progressio who spoke on "Water, Climate Change and
Copenhagen. |
2nd
November 2009
Report from National Justice & Peace Network conference 2009
On the
Road Together: A~Mazed by Migration
A summary of
the report on the Open Space debate from the conference is now
available to download please click

Also Bishop Pat's homily "Our
mission to, with and for migrants today: the context, the
principles and the pastoral strategy"
and the views of all the keynote
speakers
.
If you have
difficulty downloading or printing any of the above we are happy
to post copies from the office.
14th October 2009
Holy Father’s
Video Message to Climate Change Summit
Pope Benedict sent a video
message to participants in the UN summit on climate change,
which was held in New York on 22 September.
Speaking in English his message started: "I wish to reflect
today upon the relationship between the Creator and ourselves as
guardians of His creation. In so doing I also wish to offer my
support to leaders of governments and international agencies who
are meeting at the United Nations to discuss the urgent issue of
climate change….”
28th September
2009
Tobin Tax
developments
Foreign minister
David Miliband was named by his French
counterpart as a supporter of a Tobin tax on financial
transactions in a move designed to show growing support for a
clampdown on excessive bank profits.
Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, said in an
interview that Miliband agreed on the need for a new tax on
financial transactions to fund
development.
For more information
follow this link to The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/17/miliband-tobin-tax-french
see also our
September 21st 2009
Pope Benedict
urges leaders to be responsible stewards of creation
World leaders should address
global environmental issues "with generous courage", that Man is
called to responsible governance of creation and the current
model of global development needs transformation, Pope Benedict
said yesterday.
August 27th 2009
Government slashes support to
asylum seekers awaiting a decision.
The government has announced that
it is cutting its cash support to destitute asylum
seekers waiting for a decision. Currently, single asylum
seekers over the age of 25 receive £42.16 a week, which
is 30% less than a single person over the age of 25 who
is resident in the UK. The government is planning to
reduce this to £35.15 per week from October, leaving
asylum seekers with only £5 per day to live on.
Donna Covey, Chief Executive of
the Refugee Council said:
“ These changes mean asylum seekers will receive a
little over half of what the government says is the
minimum people need to live on.... Surely a more
practical solution would be to allow those that can to
work and contribute to the growth of our economy, rather
than penalising the poorest and most vulnerable?”
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stopcuts
for more information and a draft letter to send to the
Home Secretary.
August 24th 2009