“The Changing Face of Britain and Ireland” is the theme of this year’s Racial Justice Day.
You would have to be blind not to have noticed the way in which these islands have become more multicultural and cosmopolitan over recent years. How do Christians respond to this? Or, more importantly, are Christians bothering to respond?
If we sit back and offer no support to vulnerable sections of society, whatever their origins, then we open the door for extremists to seize the moment and to peddle suspicion, hatred and racism. And this is no distant problem that can be solved from the comfort of an armchair. It’s on our parish doorstep…
