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July/August 2020 Malvern Priory £1.00 Magazine JULY / AUGUst 2020 ISSUE The Parish Church of St. Mary & St. Michael BLACK LIVES MATTER On 15 June, the Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge and outside the Cathedral, remembering the amount of time the Dean of Worcester, Peter Atkinson ‘took the knee’ that George Floyd lay unable to breathe. At the start outside the Cathedral to pray for all those affected by of the prayers, Dean of Worcester, Peter Atkinson said: repression, discrimination and injustice in a special “The Gospel of Jesus Christ tells us that every person video (https://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/ is our neighbour. Yet the Church has often oppressed, blacklivesmatter.php) ahead of the protest planned in marginalised, or forgotten people. The Church has been Worcester over the weekend of 20/21 June. complicit in making slaves of black people, persecuting Bishop John said: “Since 25 May, when George Floyd Jewish people, waging crusades against Muslim people, lay dying with a policeman’s knee on his neck, his cry criminalising gay people, oppressing women, and ‘I can’t breathe’ has gone round the world. That dying abusing children. God breathed into all people the cry captures the despair of so many people for whom breath of life, but so often ours has been the knees that the world is a place of repression, discrimination, and have squeezed the life from others.” injustice. It captures the cry of so many black children, After remembering the long history of oppression women, and men; so many black communities all over and suffering for black people and giving thanks for the world. 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