The co-chair of the new anti-racism taskforce, the Revd Sonia Barron, has said that the Church of England must not just ‘pay lip-service’ to issues of racism. On 13 October the Church announced the launch of a taskforce, which will propose actions that the Church should take to promote greater racial equality across the Church. The work of the group will include sifting through 160 recommendations that already exist, most of them made by the Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC) since 1985, and identifying any that have been ignored and could be implemented. Their recommendations will be presented to the Archbishops’ Racism Action Commission, which will be launched in spring 2021.
Church anti-racism taskforce pressing for urgent action
Written by David Fletcher 15 Oct 2020Additional Info
- Pray: for the Church and movements like Black Lives Matter to successfully address the sin of racism so that racial justice is done. (Malachi 2:10)
- More: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/16-october/news/uk/new-anti-racism-taskforce-will-press-for-urgent-action
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