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Governments must do more on climate change, say Churches
16 March 2018
Three major British Churches have voiced their disappointment that the Rio+20 Earth Summit has not made progress on the environmental challenges that face the global community.
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Methodist Church launches interactive web map on new website
16 March 2018
Multilayered web map displays vital statistics for Methodist churches in Britain
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The Methodist Conference comes to Plymouth
16 March 2018
This year’s Methodist Conference will be held at Plymouth Pavilions, 28 June to 5 July. The Conference is the governing body of the Methodist Church and meets annually to discuss matters affecting the life of the Church, the nation and the world.
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Church schools celebrate national success in second year of awards
16 March 2018
Two schools from the East Midlands are celebrating their success as National winners of the second Church School Awards.
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A fresh vision for Methodist mission at home and overseas
16 March 2018
Today, the Methodist Conference agreed a new understanding, vision and purpose of the Church’s calling to worldwide mission, seeking to integrate this more fully into the work of the whole Church.
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Keep Faithful & Carry On, says Methodist General Secretary
16 March 2018
The Revd Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist Church, has urged Methodists to focus on what it means to be a ‘discipleship movement shaped for mission.’
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I'm grateful to a Church that has never given up, says Methodist President
16 March 2018
At the opening of the annual Methodist Conference in Plymouth today, the Revd Dr Mark Wakelin spoke of a Church that has never given up on him and challenged Methodists to make it a place where people are welcomed as they are.
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Methodist Vice-President: "The hardest thing for many to accept is the role of change"
16 March 2018
The newly inaugurated Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, Michael King, told a packed conference hall in Plymouth today that welcoming strangers into the Church implied a willingness to be changed.
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Methodist Church plans to build schools in deprived areas
16 March 2018
The Methodist Church has today reaffirmed its commitment to the education sector, pledging to increase the number of state-funded Methodist schools over the next ten years.
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UK is a tax haven, says tax expert Richard Murphy
16 March 2018
In a lecture entitled, “The Courage to Pay: tax, faith, honesty and business”, Mr Murphy will say that the UK has become a tax haven for rich and multinational companies.
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Young Christians tackle embarrassment surrounding faith
16 March 2018
Poverty, ethical living, sexuality, and dating non-Christians and are among the issues young Methodists want to talk about, the Methodist Conference heard today. The Conference also heard that a number of nine-to-13-year-old Methodists were coping with problems such as bullying and feeling embarrassed about being Christian.
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Methodists celebrate 40 years of rural work by the Arthur Rank Centre
16 March 2018
A year after an agricultural chaplain launched a helpline to support gay farmers, Methodists are celebrating the 40 year anniversary of the Arthur Rank Centre (ARC) at their annual Methodist Conference. The 40 year anniversary of the rural outreach charity, which works alongside other national agricultural bodies in the UK, coincides with the retirement of its Methodist director, the Revd Dr Gordon Gatward who has served the centre for 13 years.
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