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Durham supports stopping places for travellers; NCT releases Jubilee Proclamation; Cornish churches win £6000 for lockdown project; Northwich trail inaugurated on St Helen’s Day; Theological college collates Covid good works

20 May 2022

Increasing numbers of refugees cross into Hungary

THE UNCHR, in its latest situation report, says that 359,197 refugees fleeing Ukraine have crossed Hungary’s Eastern border: about ten per cent of those displaced internationally since Russia invaded on 24 February

01 Apr 2022

Priest fears for Travellers as new anti-trespass law goes through Parliament

CHURCHES will be asked to consider offering sanctuary spaces for Gypsies and Travellers whose way of life will be threatened under the Government’s new law criminalising trespass, which is currently going through Parliament

10 Dec 2021

General Synod digest: Government is urged to tackle inequality ‘scandal’

26 Nov 2021

Press: Sunday Times scores a goal for Pentecostalism

19 Nov 2021

Alliance of 350 organisations, including faith groups, decry policing Bill

17 Sep 2021

Letter compares Romany man’s death in Czech Republic to George Floyd’s

09 Jul 2021

Don’t scapegoat Roma community amid coronavirus restrictions, says Christian network

30 Apr 2021

Church urged to support Traveller communities hit by lockdowns

12 Mar 2021

Pastor to Gypsies hopes for change in perception

29 May 2020

Bishop of St Albans cites racism in Roma debate

28 Feb 2020

General Synod: Roma, Gypsy, and Traveller communities

01 Mar 2019

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