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Bishop of Blackburn: ‘The Church is adding to the rising tide of anti-Semitism’
Rosa Silverman Published on July 17, 2026 Read on www.msn.com On the streets of urban Lancashire, war in the Middle East looms large. “Just down the road from me,” says the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Philip North, “is an enormous, very complex, overlapping set of Muslim communities. What unites them is Gaza and…
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Why is the Church of England about to debate anti-Semitic propaganda?
Nicole Lampert Published on July 10, 2026 Read on www.msn.com It is just four years since the Church of England apologised for nearly a millennium of Christian anti-Semitism. Marking the 800th anniversary of the 1222 Synod of Oxford, which imposed new taxes on English Jews, compelled them to wear identifying badges and banned them from…
