Cardinal Vincent Nichols, head of the Church of England and Wales and chairman of the Archdiocese of Westminster He raised the question of the permit to open vehicle showrooms and shut down shrines. In a statement issued on May 30, the Prime Minister’s announcement of a concession made it a direct question of the reasons for the closure of mosques.
The shrines were closed by March 20. Believers in various parts of England are calling for the resumption of church services. It had promised to take precautionary measures when the temples were open. “I don’t understand why the shrine is being shunned,” the cardinal said. Even before the opening of the Protestant and Islamic shrines, he had already asked for permission to open Catholic churches because the style of worship practiced by the mosques was different from other religions.
