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eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 22 January 2003

English priest believes knowledge of witchcraft can be useful

London (ENI). For Richard Thomas, a priest on the Anglican bishop of Oxford’s staff, witchcraft is not to be feared or hated but to be understood as “an emerging faith community”. Thomas, who is the Oxford diocese’s director of communication, has spent three months meeting practitioners of Wicca, or modern pagan witchcraft, and attending their rituals. [599 words, ENI-03-0024]

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