A delegation of black Bishops from the USA is visiting Manchester from through to to Tuesday 28 October 2008 as part of their UK tour for Black History Month.

US civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson is to visit British churches in an effort to help them do more to promote racial justice. During his visit next week, Jackson will address the involvement of minority ethnic communities in economic development and the building of a just society.

Britain is a society increasingly fractured with religious extremism on the rise, and people becoming disconnected from one another.