Possible Clues:

• Dump in African capital with English religious job
• Talk covers an about-turn by the head of ecumenical religious office
• More than one teacher beat bairn cruelly
• Jewish religious office
• Scottish poet digesting Holy Writ outside a religious leader's office
• Foreign letter-writer with block turns to collection of teachers
• Teacher's office or class containing a black container for rubbish
• Israeli PM clutching book took in Jewish master' s tenure