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Methodist President and Vice-President welcome Papal Encyclical
26 October 2017
The President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference have welcomed the latest Papal encyclical, which focuses on the issue of climate change.
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Church issues ‘full and unreserved apology’ to abuse survivors
26 October 2017
The Methodist Church in Britain has today published the report of an independent review of past safeguarding cases related to the Church from 1950 to 2014.
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Message of solidarity sent to African Methodist Episcopal Church
26 October 2017
The President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference have sent a letter of solidarity to the African Methodist Episcopal Church following the killing of nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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We must find our voice, urges new Methodist Vice-President
26 October 2017
The newly appointed Vice-President of the Methodist Conference has called for the Church to find its distinctive voice in her inaugural address.
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News: Church to take major steps in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
26 October 2017
Today the Methodist Conference has vowed to make significant changes to its policy and procedures in a move to make the Church a safer place for all.
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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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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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“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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