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Aug 08

‘Burn down their hatred with hope’ – Responding to racist riots in Liverpool

  • By abravefaith in Christianity, Hate Crime, Liverpool, Methodist
  • 8th August 2024

LAST SUNDAY, as part of my training as a Methodist local preacher, I led a service at a Black majority church in inner city Liverpool, about half a mile from a mosque. I had planned the service the week before, but as I woke to news of protests, riots, violence and destruction in the city the night before, I knew I had to respond somehow.

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