Workshop 1- Diversity, Inequality and Racism: A Challenge for Catholic Education
Please see video recording at this link
Workshops on Diversity, Inequality and Racism in the UK
Diversity, Inequality and Racism in the UK – A Challenge for Catholic Education This Series of Workshops for School Chaplains, Teachers and others interested in Catholic Education, has been organised by the Catholic Association for Racial Justice with support from CAFOD’s Development Education Fund. The Workshops will attempt to relate key...
Shadowing Opportunities at St George’s Hospital: For Young Black People
Are you interested in a career in Medicine? There is an opportunity to shadow a leading Maxillofacial consultant for two weeks at St Georges Hospital in London. Please send expressions of interest to hilda.wright1234@gmail.com.
Windrush Ambassadors Required
Community spirited individuals are being sort to make a real difference by ensuring that more people affected by the Windrush issue can receive the help and support they need, especially during these uncertain times. What is the Windrush issue? The Windrush issue came to prominence in 2018, it affected long-term residents who could not prove their...
Serving a Multiethnic Society
Revisiting Guidelines set out for reviewing Catholic Organisations and Institutions produced by the Catholic Bishops in 1999 after the Macpherson Report on the Stephen Lawrence police investigation. Serving a Multiethnic Society
The Cricketers Wife: Novel by a Black Catholic Writer Leah Guy Mathews
The Cricketer’s Wife Is trust possible when your husband is not only tall, dark, and handsome, but also well-to-do, famous, and titled? This is the dilemma of Olivia Reese, Londoner, and mother of two, married for over twenty years to cricketing...
Press Release: CARJ Welcomes Promise to Implement Windrush Recommendations
The Windrush Lessons Learned Review led by Wendy Williams was published on 30 March 2020 with 30 recommendations. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has accepted all 30 recommendations and promised to implement them. This announcement by the Home Secretary is very welcome. The Government has also established a Windrush Working...
CARJ Briefing: Police, Black People and Racial Justice- 3 June 2020
May George Floyd rest in peace, and may his family see justice done. We are shocked but not surprised to see protests breaking out across the USA and in other parts of the world – including here in the UK. More than forty years ago, our predecessor – the Catholic...
Revd. Alfred Banya shares his thoughts as a Chaplin Supporting Covid-19 Patients
Impact of COVID-19 on the Black and Ethnic Minority (BAME): the social teaching of the Church and enabling the voice of the voiceless. By Revd. Alfred Banya Around the second week in May this year, I got a surprise offer from the producer of Sunday Radio 4 religious and ethical...
Letter from Chair of CARJ on Covid-19 and BAME Communities
Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens The Effect of Covid-19 on Black and Minority Ethnic Communities A recent report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has made it clear that people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are much more likely to die from the coronavirus than...