In an exclusive interview with The Tablet, Labour leader Ed Miliband says while he is ‘not a religious person’, his manifesto has been influenced by Catholic Social Teaching
On the first floor of a drab office block in a run-down back street in Croydon, south London, the congregation had been warming up for at least an hour before Ed Miliband showed up. Several hundred people in their Sunday best were giving voice to the joy of their Pentecostal faith inside Praise House, the name in which this gloomy-looking building rejoices. There were bongo drums and a gospel choir and two large illuminated screens displaying the words of the hymns against a backcloth of the Cross. Someone was trying to find the right place to position a portable screen before the Labour Party leader arri
23 April 2015, The Tablet
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