Published Date:
07 March 2008
By Staff Copy
ANGLICAN churches across Leeds and surrounding areas are being asked to vote this weekend to sever all connection with the National Lottery.
If the anti-gambling vote is passed and churches turn their back on the Lottery, it could cost Anglican churches in the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds millions of pounds in support for their crumbling buildings.
The 100-strong Synod (parliament) of the Diocese, meeting at the St Francis Xavier School, Richmond, tomorrow, is being asked to vote on a policy aimed at discouraging churches in the diocese from applying for National Lottery Funding.
The motion that "this Synod encourages parishes not to apply for National Lottery Funding" will be proposed by a senior clergyman, the Rev Canon Tony Shepherd, vicar of the town centre church of St Peter's Harrogate and chairman of the House of Clergy on the Diocesan Synod. He has appeared on TV debates on the subject.
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Last Updated:
07 March 2008 9:49 AM
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Source:
EP Leeds First & County
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Location:
Leeds
