London 'Occupy' Protests Prick Anglican Church's Conscience

November 01, 2011 from Euronews

The protesters camping at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London's financial heartland place the Church of England in a moral quandary. The Occupy London Stock Exchange activists were given a 48-hour ultimatum to decamp or be forced to leave, but the authorities have since backtracked. The tents have been on Anglican Church property and land owned by the Corporation of London for two weeks. The Cathedral re-opened for religious business this morning, after it had been shut for seven days, officially on health and safety grounds.

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