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June 10, 1997
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE
Canon Jim Rosenthal, Director of Communications
Anglican Communion Office
London, England

[97.6.1.1]

ENGLAND: ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION, BISHOP TELLS PILGRIMS

(CT) The Bishop of the Windward Isles, the Rt Revd Sehon Goodridge, told
Walsingham pilgrims that the Church should welcome strangers, and seek
to eliminate discrimination. About 10,000 people attended the National
Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham on Monday 26 May.

The Bishop of the Windward Islands said that words like "foreigners" and
"aliens" were not helpful. That the Church had a unique opportunity to
witness to a variety of peoples and cultures, and was an international
agency of interpretation.

It is good to know that the Church of England has grasped the nettle and
sown seeds of hope, redressing its practice in many places of rejection
and inhospitality towards Anglicans and other enthnicities who came to
this country at the invitation of successive British governments, and
whose children are born here.