Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Report: Church of England Is Racist

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-church-minorities,0,6188454.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[Newsday.com] 19 June 2007--Black and Asian clergy members are unlikely to reach high office in the Church of England and minorities are sometimes marginalized in parish churches, an internal review will show, a newspaper reported Sunday.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, the report says little has been done to confront "institutional racism." The report was commissioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and completed ahead of the church's General Synod next month.

"Parish clergy are part of the problem," the newspaper quoted the Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the chair of the committee that produced the report, as saying. "Whether consciously or unconsciously, they are not encouraging black people who are in their churches to come forward.

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