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Let's talk about sex, say Methodist youth
26 October 2017
Young Methodists have challenged the Church to be more open and willing to discuss issues of sexual identity, pornography and sexual relationships in a report to the Methodist Conference.
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Churches encouraged to offer support to migrants
26 October 2017
Following on from a Notice of Motion presented to this year’s Methodist Conference, all Methodist churches are being encouraged to provide support to at least one individual or family crossing Europe from the Mediterranean fleeing from conflict.
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“Where’s the review?” say Churches and charities
26 October 2017
It has been 100 days since the Work and Pensions Select Committee called for a full independent review of the benefit sanctions system, but the Government has not indicated any intention to conduct a review. A group of Churches and charities is calling urgently for the Government to heed the Committee’s report and act on its recommendations.
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Church must celebrate and learn from diversity, says report
26 October 2017
The Methodist Fellowship Groups, congregations of Methodists united by a shared ethnicity or language, announced their intention to grow in deeper relationships, mutual partnerships and genuine integration in a report to the Methodist Conference.
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People with mental health problems bear the brunt of benefit sanctions in Wales
26 October 2017
#RethinkSanctionsA shocking new report by a group of Christian churches showsthat people with poor mental health are bearing the brunt of one ofthe Westminster Government's policies aimed at getting people backto work. The Welsh Data Supplem...
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Church leaders commemorate Hiroshima bombing saying ‘never again’
26 October 2017
At an interfaith commemoration service held today (6 August) at the Friend’s Meeting House in Central London, religious leaders from many faiths, including several Christian denominations, gathered to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Conference to highlight changing face of family ministry
26 October 2017
A new report looking into the diversity of family life and a new Core Skills for Family Ministry training course will be launched at the We are Family Family ministry Conference on 11-12 September.
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Time is running out - book your place at 3Generate 2015
26 October 2017
Places still available for 3Generate 2015, the Methodist Children & Youth Assembly.
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Rural partnership begins innovative project tackling financial exclusion
26 October 2017
Comic Relief is supporting a new initiative by The Arthur Rank Centre, The Plunkett Foundation and The Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Division to extend access and use of rural credit unions.
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New report reveals changing shape of Britain’s families
26 October 2017
A new study has raised questions about the common concept of 'family'.
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Methodist Church appoints new national Safeguarding Adviser
26 October 2017
Tim Carter has been appointed to the post of Connexional Safeguarding Adviser to the Methodist Church.
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Methodist Church makes further progress on safeguarding
26 October 2017
The Methodist Council has heard of the progress made by the Church in addressing the concerns of the Past Cases Review.
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