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December 2020
Wed 9th Dec – Chester Friends of Palestine: Zoom session
Wed 9th Dec – Chester Friends of Palestine: Zoom session 6.30pm Our next meeting is in the form of a Zoom call with Hala Rashed, an associate professor at Bethlehem University. Hala will talk about life in Bethlehem today, particularly relevant as we approach Christmas. For further information or to get the Zoom link for the meeting please email Brian on brian.r.rowe@gmail.com
Find out more »Thurs 10th Dec – International Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on this date every year. The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “Write for Rights”: In December 2019 Chester & Wrexham Amnesty International Group held a successful event at Storyhouse. We are unable to hold a public event this year, but we do hope that you are still able to support Write for…
Find out more »Wed 16th Dec 2020 – Stories, Poems, and Music for Advent and Christmas
‘Do you want to hold him for a moment?’ Stories, Poems, and Music for Advent and Christmas, with Trevor Dennis and Friends We really need Christmas this year, but whether our churches will be able to hold the usual carol services remains doubtful. So this Christian Aid event may be particularly important. A ray of hope! Trevor Dennis will introduce and read seven of his published stories and poems on the themes of Advent and Christmas, while Brian and Claire…
Find out more »Sat 19th Dec – Chester Friends of Palestine Vigil: Against Arms to Israel
2.00 -3.00pm The Cross, Chester We will not be holding our usual vigil at the end of November but if it's possible we hope to have one on this, the Saturday before Christmas, with placards on a Bethlehem theme. To let us know you are coming, and for further information please email: chester4palestine@gmail.com
Find out more »January 2021
Tues 12th Jan – CWDF Forum-by-Zoom
Speaker Ciara Hogan, on her work as Community Participation Cooordinator for CAFOD – the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. Ciara’s responsibilities cover the Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury, (extending from Birkenhead in the north down to Telford in the south) fostering the work of local groups. Zoom joining details to be supplied nearer the date.
Find out more »May 2021
May 2021 – Exhibition & Conference “Our Journey to Sustainability” – PROVISIONAL
Chester Sustainability Forum and Chester Cathedral hope to stage this event, originally planned for May 2020 but postponed due to Covid. It aims to display the wide range of responses to the climate emergency that are being planned and implemented by the many faith groups, environmental groups, businesses, and political parties which share the common objective of improving the environmental sustainability of Chester and its surrounding area. The situation will be reviewed in Jan 2021. Dates and details to be…
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