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Rev Steve Openshaw

@steveopenshaw.bsky.social

Husband, dad, grandad, priest, trade unionist, socialist, descendent of Irish immigrants & lover of jazz, funk & soul. Boltonian living in Chorley. Views are my own & don't necessarily reflect the views of the Church. Not always able to chat I'm afraid.

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Michelle Agyemang: Lionesses super-sub on doing a degree while winning Euros England striker Michelle Agyemang tells Sky News "it's a lot of work" studying for a university degree while being a professional footballer.

"It's by the grace of God that I'm doing what I'm doing"
Michelle Agyemang on studying while winning Euros
#CofE

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04.08.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra ยฃ1.3m via offshore parent firm Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers

Underhand, secret, shady, deceitful bonus payments to the CEO of Yorkshire Water!!!
The water companies can't be trusted.
It's time to re-nationalise!
#Water #Ofwat

03.08.2025 10:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gaza hospitals say 18 killed by Israeli fire as aid site shootings continue to rise UN says 859 have died near GHF sites since May while hospitals report growing number of hunger-related deaths

Palestinians in Gazacontinue to starve to death because of Israel's blockade & Israel continues to shoot in cold blood innocent men, women & children... including the starving trying to access aid.
#Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal

#Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ #Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

03.08.2025 08:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mick Lynch "This govt in Israel is out of control.. we're allies of this govt & they've killed 60,000 people.. I dont know how we can say we're allies of a govt that.. is killing people [in the occupied West Bank] & is killing people en masse through mechanised slaughter in Gaza"

01.08.2025 05:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 177    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

At least 111 Palestinians, including 91 aid seekers, have been killed & 820 injured by #Israel across #Gaza in the past 24 hours.

Israel has murdered a total of 1,330 people seeking food, with more than 8,818 injured, since 27 May!

Israel continues to murder those who are starving!

#Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

31.07.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Main tent filling up nicely for the teaching this evening at Keswick Convention. Children... 1800 of them... in their own activities.
Church looking pretty healthy & cared for ๐Ÿฅฐ
#KesCon25

29.07.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Death toll in Israelโ€™s war on Gaza surpasses 60,000 The grim milestone reaches as Israel continues to target aid seekers amid famine conditions in Gaza.

As of today at least 60,034 Palestinians, a third of them children, have been killed by Israeli forces since the war on Gaza erupted in October 2023!
This includes 113 in the last 24 hours!
#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

29.07.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli public figures call for โ€˜crippling sanctionsโ€™ on Israel over Gaza starvation Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of โ€˜brutal campaignโ€™ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for โ€œcrippling sanctionsโ€ to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza.
#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

29.07.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beautiful Derwentwater in the Lake District today. Here in Keswick for the 150th Keswick Convention.

26.07.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@commonsspeaker.parliament.uk

26.07.2025 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If the eve of the Palestinian people in Gaza being exterminated by Israel, with bullet & starvation, isn't the right time to recognise the State of Palestine, Keir Starmer, when is?
#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ @keirstarmer.bsky.social
@davidlammy.bsky.social

26.07.2025 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Trump tells Israel to โ€˜finish the jobโ€™ against Hamas weeks after suggesting ceasefire deal in sight | CNN Politics Only a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump seemed confident a deal was days away that would end the fighting in Gaza, secure the release of hostages and allow aid to flow into an enclave where peopl...

A failure at making peace, Trump gives Netanyahu the OK to continue the genocide in Gaza,with his eye on making more money for himself.
Trump is a man with no ethics or moral compass & is completely lacking in any humanity.
He will answer to his Maker one day for what he has done & is doing.

25.07.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli government spokesman David Mencer panicking & refusing to answer questions asked by Nick Robinson on 'Today' BBC Radio 4 this morning... even with personal attacks on the interviewer.
Abysmal performance.
Shouldn't be invited back.
#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

25.07.2025 07:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shame on the nations of the world which stand by while Israel starves to death Palestinian men, women & children in Gaza!
Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ is an abomination!
Netanyahu is a war criminal!

24.07.2025 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house Marianne Sorrell, a retired teacher from Somerset, says she is โ€˜very traumatisedโ€™ after arrest at Cardiff rally

Disgraceful police behaviour towards an 80 year old woman concerned about the genocide & ethnic cleansing taking place in Gaza & the West Bank... the murder of innocent Palestinian men, women & children!
#SouthWalesPolice #Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ #Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
@labouruk.bsky.social @keirstarmer.bsky.social

24.07.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Political hope for ordinary folk of this nation. Independent of corporations, fossils fuel industries, foreign influence and all the lobbyists that serve the rich, not the people. 'Taking back control'... re-nationalising the NHS, water, rail and energy โค๏ธ
#YourParty #Corbyn
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24.07.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Headline from the Guardian: Mass starvation spreading across Gaza aid agencies warn as pressure on Israel grows along with a photo of a Gazan mum with her starving child looking like a skeleton.

Headline from the Guardian: Mass starvation spreading across Gaza aid agencies warn as pressure on Israel grows along with a photo of a Gazan mum with her starving child looking like a skeleton.

As we remember & celebrate Live Aid 40 years ago, the world stands by & watches as Israel starves Gaza & has even murdered over 1000 people trying access food in the last few weeks!
Lord have mercy ๐Ÿ˜ญ

23.07.2025 08:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why the War in the Middle East Is Not Religious but a Battle for Hegemony | PRN

Very helpful article from Salim Munayer on how the root causes of conflicts in the Middle East are power, resources & strategic dominance ... not religion.
#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ #Gaza #Syria #Iran #Lebanon

22.07.2025 06:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UK condemns Israel for depriving Palestinians of โ€˜human dignityโ€™ David Lammy joins ministers from 24 other countries in issuing call for immediate end to Gaza war

But when is the UK going to get serious... by stopping RAF flights over Gaza, stopping meeting Israeli officials, by sanctions on Israel, by stopping selling arms to Israel... & by recognising Palestine as a state?
#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ
@davidlammy.bsky.social

21.07.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli forces kill 67 Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had "fired warning shots" and disputed the number of reported deaths.

Israel is continuing to murder Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid.

The genocide continues.

#Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine

20.07.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank Charity Commission criticised for endorsing transfer of about ยฃ5.7m to high school in illegal village of Susya

Kasner Charitable Trust & UK Tormet must have there charitable status revoked after funding ILLEGAL Israeli Jewish settlers in Palestine.
They also claimed tax payers money as they did this!
Disgraceful!
Come on Charity Commission ... do the right thing!
#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

18.07.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying โ€˜Free Gazaโ€™ of supporting a proscribed organisation

News:
Very concerning... woman threatened with arrest on terrorism charges ... for holding a Palestinian flag & saying "Free Gaza"!!!

17.07.2025 07:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#Israel๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ #Gaza #Netanyahu
@theguardian.com @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@skynewsrss.bsky.social

16.07.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli committing โ€˜manifest war crimeโ€™ says legal scholar who defended Tel Aviv at ICJ genocide case A leading member of Israelโ€™s legal team in the genocide case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has publicly condemned the Israeli militaryโ€™s latest operation in Gaโ€ฆ

A leading member of Israelโ€™s legal team in the genocide case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has publicly condemned the Israeli militaryโ€™s latest operation in Gaza as a โ€œmanifest war crimeโ€.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250709-isr...
If he can, why can't Starmer?

14.07.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bishops call on UK government to take action over West Bank settler violence Senior Church of England clerics want ministers to intensify sanctions and be willing to suspend Israeli trade agreement

Senior Church of England bishops call for sanctions & suspension of the UK-Israel trade agreement, in response to illegal settler violence & intimidation against Palestinians including Palestinian Christians.

#Palestine๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ #Gaza #Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #CofE

14.07.2025 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic album!

13.07.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Humanitarian cityโ€™ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

Former Israel PM Ehud Olmert says
Israel is already committing WAR CRIMES in Gaza & the West Bank, & recognises Israel is now proposing to build a CONCENTRATION CAMP & that forcing Palestinians into the camp amounts to ETHNIC CLEANSING

#Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Gaza #Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal

13.07.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump "doth protest too much, methinks"
#Trump #POTUS47 #Epstein

13.07.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, emergency officials say The Israeli military said there had been a "technical error" with a strike targeting a "terrorist" and it was under review.

TEN Palestinian people, including six CHILDREN, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza today!
The murder...the genocide...the war crimes continue.
And the world stands by doing nothing!
#Israel๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #Gaza #Palestine๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal

13.07.2025 12:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Synodโ€™s silence on Gaza amounts to โ€˜complicityโ€™ says priest Palestinianย Christians โ€˜grieved and disappointedโ€™ by decision not to schedule a debate

It's disgraceful that as the Christian population in the Holy Land, along with the whole Palestinian population, is being oppressed & murdered by the State of Israel, there is no discussion of this at the Church of England General Synod.
Lord forgive us for our apathy๐Ÿ™
#Palestine๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ #Israel๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ #CofE

11.07.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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