Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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13th November 2008 – a week ago today – was a long and physically gruelling day. All but 24 hours without sleep, charter flights with 200 Sixth Form students and a group of senior faith representatives to and from the Polish city of Kraków, and a day at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Yesterday was the hottest day of the year in London so far in 2008 and we lined up to for the “Walk of Witness” for the Millennium Development Goals. Bishops as far as the eye could see! Purple cassocks combined oddly with sun hats – no mitres here – and the bishops’ wives’ dresses and [...]
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Dalai Lama with senior faith representatives at Lambeth Palace [Photo: © Lambeth Palace]
Here’s a picture of the Dalai Lama with the religious representatives at Lambeth Palace on 23 May. You can find my post about this wonderful encounter here.
I’m in the back row on the left of the line-up, next to Cardinal Cormac Murpy-O’Connor.
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Today has been the Bahá’í Holy Day known as the Declaration of the Báb. It marks the very beginning of the Bahá’í Faith in the Iranian city of Shiraz in 1844.
My great treat for the day was a trip to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s historic residence in London, to take part in a [...]
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There’s dining, and then there’s banqueting.
Every two years or so, the Lord Mayor of the City of London (not to be confused with the London Mayor – two different offices and two different people) holds a dinner for the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England. He also invites the dignitaries of other churches [...]
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