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Rosemarie Mallett

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Bishop of Croydon. Actively working for justice and peace for all

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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Register that shatters the myth of Britain’s role in profiting from enslavement
In this month’s newsletter: for Caribbean scholars, the evidence of how deeply slavery shaped Britain’s wealth has never been in doubt. Plus, heritage walks in Manchester
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Looking forward to this new documentary. Never mind the obvious places like Bristol and Liverpool; we have quite a few to research in Croydon. David Olusoga to investigate Britain’s slave traders in new documentary | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine share.google/Uqb8xTKAcm7E...
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David Olusoga to investigate Britain’s slave traders in new documentary | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
Professor David Olusoga will present new BBC Two history documentary Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Following the catastrophic Himalayan flash floods, our thoughts are with the families of the missing pilgrims from the Sanatan Mandir & Community Centre & everyone affected by this tragedy. We join the Croydon & Couldson communities in praying for their safety and a swift rescue operation
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Today we celebrate the quiet power of the worldwide Mothers founder Mary Sumner, who said to English village women she gathered 160 years ago, "if only you knew your power". Radical thinking, then and now. @southwark.anglican.org @churchofengland.org mothersunion.org www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Sunday Worship - "If you only knew your power...." - BBC Sounds
Bishop Rosemarie Mallett marks the founding of the Mothers' Union 150 years ago.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It is sad to see how division is being sown through drumming up fear of the "other". Stoking up fraction only brings disorder and damages communities. Inciting hatred can never be the answer. www.networknorwich.co.uk/Articles/744...
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Bishop says Thetford disorder is indefensible
Following violence, disorder and protests during the past few days in Thetford, over asylum seekers being housed in the town, the Bishop of Thetford has called the scenes indefensible and deeply distr...
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Long days of summer beckoning? A trip to the Library over the summer? Lambeth Palace Library awaits with an exhibition on Mssionaries, merchants and empire. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/mis...
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Missionaries, merchants and empire collide in free Lambeth Palace exhibition
A free exhibition uncovers the religious networks that accompanied British ships around the world, while revealing the uneasy relationship between faith, trade, slavery and empire.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yrsterday the Caribbean marked Emancipation day with a public holiday, in recognition of the formal ending of legal slavery by the British government. The fight for economic and spiritual emancipation continues The statue is of Bussa who led a rebellion of enslaved people on the island of Barbados.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#pilgrimplaces Southwark diocese travels to #Bristol to hear about the entangled story of Cgattel Enslavement and the development of Bristol
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Its an honour to join with friends, fellow Barbadians, Cariibean citizens and people from all over the world to celebrate the life of Sir Garfield Sobers.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An important contribution to the conversation on ploarisation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Burnham must shift UK mood on racism, chair of Operation Black Vote says
Incoming PM must seize chance to stop race discourse deflecting from class inequalities, says David Weaver
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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NCLF – National Church Leader Forum is an organisation committed to facilitating a Black Christian Voice in the UK.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Brixton Market is at risk of being bought by private equity developers, which could push out independent traders and bring in chain stores. Locals are launching an emergency counter-bid to bring it into community ownership by June 22 to help keep it independent: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bu...
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Back the community bid to keep Brixton Market independent
Private equity developers are trying to buy Brixton Market. Support the local traders' emergency counter-bid to keep it in community hands before the June 22nd deadline. Add your name to the petition:
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great work by the @southwark.anglican.org and Palace for Life foundation www.linkedin.com/posts/giving...
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Giving young South Londoners the opportunity to learn, share and understand that everyone deserves respect through Equals Eagles 👊  Over the six-week programme, participants learnt about equality,… ...
Giving young South Londoners the opportunity to learn, share and understand that everyone deserves respect through Equals Eagles 👊  Over the six-week programme, participants learnt about equality, d...
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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NCLF – National Church Leader Forum is an organisation committed to facilitating a Black Christian Voice in the UK.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Tackling extremism has to begin with listening
‘Brave spaces’ are needed in which people can speak about their frustrations without judgement, says Anderson Jeremiah
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fr Patrick Van der Vorst words describe the timidity of the church in calling out social injustices "Religious institutions, however sacred, can .. risk becoming too occupied with power, systems, money, reputation, or self-preservation. When that happens, they cease to reflect the heart of God. "
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We need more community hubs like this. BBC News - Christian group to run Northstowe's first community hub - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Christian group to run Northstowe's first community hub
The Northstowe Church Network's bid is scored above a bid from the Hindu Samaj Northstowe group.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
An amazing morning viewing (and buying) artwork by some of Croydon's most engaging and joyous creatives, with the civic mayor of Croydon @southwark.anglican.org
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Whatever happened, this is so sad. Three young women gone too soon.Imagine if they were your your sisters or daughters or friends. It hurts to do so. We pray for their family and friends. Their loss and grief must be heart wrenching. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Three women found dead in sea off Brighton beach identified as sisters
Father describes Jane Adetoro, Christina Walter and Rebecca Walter as ‘the beautiful light that filled our family with happiness and love’
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Reflective article dissecting the rise of populism open.substack.com/pub/liambyrn...
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'Normal' is not coming back
Ten things three universities taught me about the populist revolt - and why the centre cannot simply wait it out.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Prayer is an act of hope, just one of the million acts of hope and faith being showcased by a wide range of community organisations and Christian groups all over the country over the next weekmillionactsofhope.org
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Catholics Unite Through “A Million Acts of Hope” - Catholic Diocese Of East Anglia
Catholics are being invited to join the “A Million Acts of Hope” Week of Action (13-20 May) by taking part in community-building and solidarity activities that […]
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Excellent launch meeting today. www.instagram.com/p/DYI1ssLCB4...
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I am really looking forward to showcasing the ways our local churches offer hope, through acts of kindness and justice to help meet social and economic needs in our communities in these quite challenging and divisive times @southwark.anglican.org #MillionActsofHope
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Churches Together in England @churchesengland.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Our April newsletter is out! Get the latest unity news and stories: mailchi.mp/cte/ctenewsa... Including - #MillionActsOfHope - May 13 to 20 ❤️ - Walking Humbly resources from @trusselluk.bsky.social 🤝 - "Ecumenism in a time of conflict" ✝️ - MA Mission Prize closes on 30 April 👨‍🎓 #ChurchesTogether
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We had a fabulous St George's Day service in Southwark Cathedral today, celebrating the bicentenary of George's School Camberwell. The children were amazing telling the story of their school and linking it to values of courage, kindness and justice which are values for everytime.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Declining societal religious norms are linked to rising youth anxiety across 70 countries share.google/yrNiXtsfsJbP...
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Declining societal religious norms are linked to rising youth anxiety across 70 countries
A new study in Developmental Science finds that declining religious norms across 70 countries are linked to rising youth anxiety. The research suggests that growing up in increasingly secular societie...
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found
Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Fascinating study... Declining societal religious norms are linked to rising youth anxiety across 70 countries share.google/yrNiXtsfsJbP...
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Declining societal religious norms are linked to rising youth anxiety across 70 countries
A new study in Developmental Science finds that declining religious norms across 70 countries are linked to rising youth anxiety. The research suggests that growing up in increasingly secular societie...
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Canon Stephanie Spellers speaking at St Hughs Crosby Road on the importance of listening to young people and paying attention to social and racial justice as we build a church that reaches out to folk who feel they are either not a part of or they are done with church. #racialjustice
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The Caribbean has too quickly turned aside. Pragmatism? Perhaps cloaked in fine words. But fine words offer no help for the people of Cuba. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed
For decades, Cuban doctors have served the Caribbean’s most marginalised. Now, as Cuba faces its own crisis, the region looks away, waiting on Trump’s approval
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A good news story from Croydon. BBC News - 'Scared' six-year-old calls ambulance to save mum www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Croydon six-year-old calls ambulance to save mum after brain bleed
Pearl's mother Carole suffered a bleed on the brain at their home in Croydon last summer.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. ❤️💚🖤 Born 15 January 1929. Assassinated 4 April 1968. | Charmaine Simpson
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. ❤️💚🖤 Born 15 January 1929. Assassinated 4 April 1968.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Starting with a service and prayer, Christians are sent out to join in with the Together Alliance March today, on the streets telling a better story of love, unity and hope @southwark.anglican.org
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Anna Bishop @revannabishop.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
What does it mean to put our faith into action in a world scarred by injustice? Join @rachellampard.bsky.social at @sarumcollege.bsky.social on 5th Feb for an interactive & engaging day of learning, discussion, reflection & practical activities. Book now: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The pain filled memories of atrocities such as these cannot be forgotten or dismissed BBC News - Namibia marks colonial genocide as reparations hang in the balance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Namibia marks German colonial genocide as reparations hang in the balance
Concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This article sets the context for the SYL planned Christmas Carol Service. I hope those that do gather to sing carols welcome all comers and give thanks for the gift of Christ as the hope of the nations. They can also find services taking at a local #achurchnearyou gracetruth.blog/2025/12/09/t...
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Tommy Robinson’s Carol Concert: show naïve grace or face the ugly truth?
The far-right campaigner, Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, claims to have become a Christian in prison. And this Saturday, his Unite the Kingdom movement has organised a Christmas C…
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Christians have always proclaimed Christ's birth as the moment when God’s light, love, and hope came into being in human flesh. There is no Christmas without Christ, it doesn't need adding in, rather it needs to be made real in people's lives. premierchristian.news/en/news/arti...
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'Putting Christ back into Christmas': Carol concert announced as follow up to Tommy Robinson rally - Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & Analysis
Controversial far-right activist Tommy Robinson has announced a carol event in London, urging his followers to "put Christ back into Christmas".
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Compassion was never part of the extractive equation... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What the story of eight-year-old Lati-Yana Brown tells us about Britain’s callous disregard for Caribbean people | Nadine White
From enslavement to Windrush to Hurricane Melissa, there is a clear pattern to the way Britain has extracted wealth and fractured families, says journalist and film-maker Nadine White
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
It was an honour to lead and preach at the national association of #Barbados independence service today at St Laurence Catford. It falls an Advent Sunday and the feast day of St Andrew, deliberately chosen by our leaders to ground us in the church and its offer of new life and new beginnings
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Who knew.... Source: BBC search.app/dBWrC
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North Shields statue to woman who escaped slavery in America
A statue is unveiled to Mary Ann Macham who fled from Virginia to North Shields in the 1830s.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
despite all the bad things that have happened to me, God put some really good people in my path www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
There is no dilemma. Simple gospel imperative. Love thy neighbour, those from near and far. BBC News - Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity, leaving the Church in a dilemma www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity
The Church of England is grappling with what to do about followers of the far-right figure embracing faith.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
CROYDON Churches come out despite cold and rain at the Sound of the Trumpet. Hundreds of Croydon's Christians from a wonderful range of church traditions coming together to worship the living God at Fairfield Hall tonight
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Community policing event in Coydon. Here representing the @southwark.anglican.org and Croydon Churches Forum with Mark Rossell of New Life Croydon
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
How refreshing. BBC News - Lady mayor aims to 'un-square the Square Mile' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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City of London's lady mayor aims to 'un-square the Square Mile'
Women who previously held the role were called lord mayors, so Dame Sue is the first lady mayor.
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
When many of us warned this was happening, that the the previously more hidden racism was being allowed to be mainsteamed again; we were gaslighted. And yet here we are again; as with my own mother 60 years ago; black and brown caregivers being shunned or attacked because of their skin colour
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Rosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Joyful Black History Month 25 service at St. Anselms Church in Harrow. There is more that unites than divides. Choose encounter, compassion, care and love.
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