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Rev Steve Openshaw
@steveopenshaw.bsky.social
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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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Breaking News:
The Archbishop of York was forced to abandon a visit to a family in the Palestinian West Bank on Saturday, after Israeli police ordered the #CofE delegation to leave the area after heavily armed Israeli settlers had blocked the road, preventing them from leaving. 😡
#Israel #Palestine
Israeli police order C of E delegation to leave West Bank village after stand-off with armed settlers
Archbishop of York’s pastoral visit to the south Hebron hills was cut short
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by Rev Steve Openshaw
fiionawallace.bsky.social
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA.

It has made JD Vance very mad.

It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?

#Israel
#Ireland
#FreePalestine
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
Israel is holding a 1000 Palestinians in jails where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food, receive regular beatings & are barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

#Israel 🇮🇱 #Palestine 🇵🇸
#Netanyahu #CrimeAgainstHumanity

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
Pope Leo rightly addresses the heresy of the "cult of the Madonna" by affirming that Mary is not a co-redeemer or co-redemptrix of humanity.
It is only Jesus who can save us.

#Christianity #Mary #Jesus #Pope

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Mary was not co-redeemer, Vatican says amid spread of cult of the Madonna
Pope Leo approves decree saying co-redeemer title risks eclipsing exclusive role of Jesus in saving humanity
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
Trump thinks Communism has been around for a 1000 years 🤣😂🤣 ... no idea!
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Redirecting...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A single shell, fired by Israel's IDF at a fertility clinic in Dec 2023, wiped out 4,000 embryos in a moment.
Depravity which shouts out GENOCIDE!
Another #CrimeAgainstHumanity committed by #Israel against the Palestinian people in #Gaza.
#Netanyahu is guilty of #WarCrimes.

#Palestine 🇵🇸
A single shell, fired by the IDF at a fertility clinic: peace prize recipient explains what lies behind her genocide finding
Former UN inquiry chair Navi Pillay says ‘what’s so unusual about this genocide’ is that ‘we are all witnesses to it’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
"Israeli attacks have killed nearly 250 Palestinians since the ceasefire took effect on October 10"

Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal. He never intended to keep the ceasefire.

#Israel 🇮🇱 #Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸

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Turkiye hosts summit on Gaza, says Israel must stop ceasefire violations
Top diplomats from Arab and Muslim nations discuss plans for an international force for Gaza, as proposed by the US.
aje.io
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Breaking News:
Israeli politicians claim IDF soldiers who violently assaulted & raped a restrained Palestinian prisoner are "heroes"!

#Israel 🇮🇱 #Palestine 🇵🇸
#IDF #Netanyahu
@keirstarmer.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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"... you are not going to grow the UK economy by taxing wealth or by taxing air travel.” (Michael O'Leary of Ryan Air)

But he would say that wouldn't he!

#UKPolitics #Budget2025

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK economy ‘doomed’ under Labour, says Ryanair chief
Michael O’Leary says Rachel Reeves needs tax cuts to create growth, as airline’s profits jump 42% in first half
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This year’s prize went to J Clarke, M H Devoret, & J M Martinis, for a breakthrough they achieved when they worked together
40 YEARS AGO
on “the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling & energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

Would be fun to hear Trump speak on this 😂
governor.ca.gov Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12d
The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.

Pathetic.
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Breaking News: Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch trying to suggest some law breaking for national leaders is acceptable... when it was involves herself, but unacceptable if it involves a member of an alternative political party.
Hypocracy!

news.sky.com/story/badeno...
Badenoch says hacking into Harriet Harman's website 17 years ago 'not the same' as Reeves breaking law
The Conservative leader previously admitted to breaking into Baroness Harman's website, where she wrote pro-Conservative lines as if she was the Labour peer.
news.sky.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
Breaking News:
Israel killed at least 104 Palestinians in Gaza last night including at least 35 children!
200 people were injured also!
The #CrimeAgainstHumanity continue.
Don't forget Gaza or the West Bank.

#Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
Israel 🇮🇱 is today continuing its genocide & ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

#Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal

The #IDF is guilty of #CrimeAgainstHumanity

news.sky.com/story/israel...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu orders military to immediately carry out strikes in Gaza
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his military to immediately carry out "powerful" strikes in Gaza.
news.sky.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
President Trump should be careful challenging others to an IQ Test Competition... someone might just take him up on it 😂

#Trump, #AOC & #Jasmine #Crockett

#IQ
Comparing the achievements of Presidents Carter (Naval Academy Graduate in Nuclear Physics) , Clinton (Yale Law Graduate & Rhodes Scholar at Oxford) & Obama (President of the Harvard Law Review), which might require a high level of intelligence, to Pres Trump's ability to "pick out an elephant from a sketch"
October 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
Smashing result for #Bolton against top of the league #CARDIFF 🎊⚽

#BWFC
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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A very low turn out in the Deputy Leader election for Labour indicating a disillusioned membership.
However the result indicates those who voted are very dissatisfied with Keir Starmer & his abandonment of true Labour values.
Starmer has got to go!

@labouruk.bsky.social @labourunionsuk.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Damning findings of the International Court of Justice on the illegal actions of the State of Israel 🇮🇱 in Gaza & against Palestinians...

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸 #CrimeAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says restrictions breached international obligations
UN’s top court also finds Israel failed to justify blocking Unrwa and other relief agencies
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
While understanding the concern of the Roman Catholic Church for the welfare of Christians in the West Bank, the actions of Israel against Palestinians of all faiths, and non, cannot be justified in the West Bank.

#Israel #Palestine #Church #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity
middleeastmonitor.bsky.social Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 21d
The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has condemned the behaviour of Israeli settlers towards Christians in the West Bank, describing the situation as “absolutely unacceptable.”

Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251022-vat...
October 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Rev Steve Openshaw
newsman.bsky.social
The Treasury Department instructs employees not to share demolition photos of the White House’s East Wing www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Perspective. Symbolism. Like a science fiction nightmare. The United States most sacred dwelling, destroyed.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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"when Maccabi fans speak out against refugees, chant “death to Arabs”, associate their enemies with Hamas & commit violence in our city centres, there is a small... part of our country that... agrees with them, & a much larger part of our country willing to humour them out of expediency."
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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The Maccabi Tel Aviv fans haven't been banned because they're Jewish.
They've been banned to prevent violence like this, yesterday, occurring in Birmingham...

@keirstarmer.bsky.social
#MaccabiTelAviv
#AstonVillaFC

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting
Israeli police make nine arrests, citing ‘disorderly conduct, riots, injured police officers’ and infrastructure damage
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Israel is now stopping aid going into Gaza... Israel is continuing it's policy of GENOCIDE!
steveopenshaw.bsky.social Rev Steve Openshaw @steveopenshaw.bsky.social · 24d
Very sadly, but predictably, Trump's peace plan is proving to be all headlines & rhetoric.
Unless more pressure is put on Israel to step back from Gaza things will continue to downwards spiral.

#Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal & #Trump is his puppet.

#Palestine 🇵🇸 #Israel 🇮🇱 #Gaza
October 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
steveopenshaw.bsky.social
Very sadly, but predictably, Trump's peace plan is proving to be all headlines & rhetoric.
Unless more pressure is put on Israel to step back from Gaza things will continue to downwards spiral.

#Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal & #Trump is his puppet.

#Palestine 🇵🇸 #Israel 🇮🇱 #Gaza
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Trump's ceasefire fire in Gaza is failing as Israel 🇮🇱 continues to murder Palestinians & as Netanyahu witholds the agreed humanitarian aid.

#Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸 #Israel

#Netanyahu is a #WarCriminal
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Rev Steve Openshaw
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So all Jewish people are Israelis and Tel Aviv football fans? .. according to Ms Badenoch. Aligning all Jews with a political state - or even an Israeli anti-Arab football team - is dangerous.
October 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM