Castleford Team Parish Magazine July & August 2014 2014-07 | Page 8

July & August 2014

ARCHBISHOP CONDEMNS ABDUCTION OF
NIGERIAN SCHOOLGIRLS
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, condemned the
abduction of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls from their boarding
school in mid-April, and has asked that people join him in praying for
their safe release.
Archbishop Justin said: “This is an atrocious and inexcusable act and
my prayers and thoughts go out to the young people and their
families at this upsetting time. I appeal to those who have taken these
schoolgirls to release them immediately and unharmed. This is in a
part of Nigeria I have visited and in a country whose people are close
to my heart. Let your hearts be open in compassion and mercy to
those who have suffered so much.”

BISHOP NICK IS FORMALLY MADE BISHOP OF
LEEDS IN FRONT OF 3000 AT YORK MINSTER
Four cathedral choirs, a brass ensemble and a worship group filled
York Minster with music on Pentecost Sunday, June 8, for the
inauguration of the new diocese and the confirmation of its first
Bishop, Rt Revd Nick Baines. Morrisons provided goodie bags. Her
Majesty the Queen, in a letter published in the programme, called the
new diocese a “clear example of how the church is responding to
Christ’s call to proclaim the Gospel afresh in a rapidly changing
society.” And the Archbishop preached, “May the wind of the Spirit
drive the mission of this new Diocese forward: from every place to
every place!

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