At the Bringing Hope conference last week, church leaders and youth workers met members of the police and representatives from the drug action team, Community Safety Unit and probation services.
Delegates at the event, organised by Birmingham Churches Together and the Council of Black-led Churches, discussed how the Church could work in partnership to tackle gun crime.
The Reverend Carver Anderson, of the Council of Black-led Churches, said: "Everyone in the Church community has a mandate to help those in the community who are broken-hearted, bruised or oppressed, and many young people in gangs are in this situation. We want the Church to become more gang-friendly and for workers to go into the community and befriend young people."
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