The English and Irish Christian Churches meeting in the ecumenical organization “Churches together in Britain and Ireland” celebrated “Racial Justice Sunday” on 12 September. This is an annual event, held on the second Sunday in September, to promote reflection in the Christian communities on the “diversity of the human family” and to pray that “incomprehension, racism and injustice may cease”. “We believe says the presentation of the event – that the diversity of the human race is not an error of God. God deliberately created variety within the human family. Yet racism continues to persist in England and Ireland. It takes the brutal form of physical attacks on individuals, which often end with death. But racism also takes the form of discrimination, popular prejudice, and reluctance to accept different cultural and ethnic groups as one’s neighbours”. The Churches have therefore decided to set up a special commission with the task of monitoring the state of racial justice in the two Anglo-Saxon countries and in the Europe and to coordinate all the necessary measures to promote a more open and inclusive culture.
