Convocation Ministry Initiatives

Letter from Europe (from Bishop Mark)

The Victims of Fear and the Victory of Love

On this first weekend in July, communities in both France and Belgium have awakened to cities torn by violence — reactions to the shooting of a young man by a police officer at a traffic stop in Nanterre. More will surely come. The death of “Nahel M,” the seventeen-year-old only child of a family from Algeria and Morocco, is just the latest telling of a tragic story. It is a story that has played out again and again in so many of the countries where we live, and whence we have come; a young man of color, an encounter with the police, a gunshot, and a needless, unjustifiable death.

Like the tragedies of Michael Brown, or George Floyd, or Breonna Taylor, or Patrick Lyoya, or Adama Traoré, or Makomé M’Bowolé, beneath the details of any one story a disturbing pattern emerges —

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