The Bishop of the Windward Isles, the Rt Revd Sehon Goodridge, told Walsingham pilgrims that the Church should welcome strangers, and seek to eliminate discrimination. About 10,000 people attended the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham on Monday 26 May.

The Bishop of the Windward Islands said that words like "foreigners" and "aliens" were not helpful. That the Church had a unique opportunity to witness to a variety of peoples and cultures, and was an international agency of interpretation.

It is good to know that the Church of England has grasped the nettle and sown seeds of hope, redressing its practice in many places of rejection and inhospitality towards Anglicans and other enthnicities who came to this country at the invitation of successive British governments, and whose children are born here.