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Methodist Church statement regarding offensive cartoons and inter-faith relations
16 March 2018
Dr. Elizabeth Harris, Methodist Secretary for Inter-FaithRelations: 'In the light of the current controversy over thepublication of cartoons depicting the Holy Prophet Muhammad, theMethodist Church affirms that freedom of speech and responsi...
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'Make your voice heard over casino plans' say Salvation Army and Methodist Church
16 March 2018
The Salvation Army and the Methodist Church are encouraginglocal groups to speak out about any proposals for casinos in theircommunities under the new Gambling Act. The two churches haveproduced resources for any faith group or local action ...
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Giving up is good for the world: new pack aims to help Methodists with self-denial
16 March 2018
Members of Horsforth and Bramley Methodist circuit in Leeds havehad their prayers answered and may soon be celebrating by denyingthemselves! Only eight months after their memorial to Conference onself-denial a new pack, Take Up Your Cross, h...
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Pakistan: Christine Elliott tells of devastation and hope
16 March 2018
Christine Elliott, World Church Secretary for Asia and thePacific, has recently returned from visiting the AbbottabadDistrict of Pakistan that was devastated by the massive October 8earthquake. As Chair of the Church of Pakistan Mission Part...
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Respecting Children: New resource speaks out against physical punishment
16 March 2018
The Churches Network for Non-Violence (CNNV) is launching a newresource to support the Church's teaching that physical punishmentis wrong and that children should be treated with respect, love andnon-violence.Launched this Friday, Respec...
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Highlights of the February meeting of the Methodist Council
16 March 2018
The Methodist Council met at All Saints Pastoral Centre nearLondon on 16-17 February. With only one more meeting scheduledbefore the Methodist Conference meets in June, the Council had alot of business on a range of topics from Church organi...
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Methodist representatives report on World Council of Churches
16 March 2018
Anthea Cox, Methodist Co-ordinating Secretary for Public Lifeand Social Justice, recently returned from the World Council ofChurches assembly in Brazil. She, along with over 700 otherrepresentatives from 340 member churches, spent 10 days in...
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Methodist Church calls for action on sex trafficking
16 March 2018
Sex trafficking is one of the most tragic and alarming productsof today's society, where women and children are forced or coercedinto prostitution. Each year several hundred thousand women aretrafficked across Europe and in their Social Acti...
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Faith and politics: Methodist response to Tony Blair's Parkinson interview
16 March 2018
Today, Anthea Cox, the Methodist Church's Coordinating Secretaryfor Public Life and Social Justice, said: 'Tony Blair's interviewon Parkinson on Saturday night firmly reintroduced in the publicarena the ongoing debate about the relationship ...
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Methodist response to the "Christian Council of Britain”
16 March 2018
A body calling itself the Christian Council of Britain andapparently associated with the BNP recently started joiningprotests against Jerry Springer: The Opera.For more details seewww.ekklesia .co.ukAnthea Cox, Methodist Coordinatin...
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Fund for World Mission legacies reach £779,000
16 March 2018
Legacies to the Methodist Fund for World Mission reached£779,000 in the year to 31 August 2005, nearly double that totalfor the year before. The money left in legacies has offset a fallin donations from churches to take giving to the Fund to...
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Forget fantasy: imagine being marginalised and forgotten
16 March 2018
Many of us fantasise about being someone else: someone richer,more attractive, or more famous. But a new book is challengingpeople to imagine being someone less glamorous: disadvantaged,marginalised and forgotten.People Like Us is a new ...
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