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Home» 2012 » October 2012

October 2012

A Letter from General Secretary Ivan Abrahams

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
A Letter from General Secretary Ivan Abrahams

I write this during an all-to brief respite from a month full of a travel and a busier one on the horizon.   During September I found myself traveling from the World Methodist Council’s headquarters in the United States to Crete, Greece for a Central Committee meeting of the World Council of Churches (I am […]

United Church of Christ supports Hunger Striking Auto Workers

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
United Church of Christ supports Hunger Striking Auto Workers

The national leaders of the United Church of Christ are showing solidarity with and support for a group of injured automobile workers staging a hunger strike in Colombia to protest unfair labor practices.   The Association of Current and Former Injured Employees of General Motors in Colombia (ASOTRECOL) said a number of workers were fired […]

Statement on the Embassy Attacks and Protests

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
Statement on the Embassy Attacks and Protests

Over the past few weeks the world has witnessed numerous displays of violence and destruction directed at the embassies of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other nations over an anti-Islamic video circulating on the internet.  This video and the response to it have provoked outrage, debate and violence throughout the Middle East, […]

Nine Dead, Twenty-One Injured in Car Accident in Zambia.

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
Nine Dead, Twenty-One Injured in Car Accident in Zambia.

Tragedy struck members of the North West Zambia Conference last week when a car accident claimed the lives of nine people. The group was returning home after a meeting of the North West Zambia Annual Conference in Mansa, Zambia on September 16. Four Itinerant Elders, three Licentiates who were also Pastors and two Stewards died […]

WMC Vice President to Meet with Pope Benedict XVI

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
WMC Vice President to Meet with Pope Benedict XVI

The Right Reverend Sarah Frances Davis, Vice President of the World Methodist Council and Bishop of the 16th Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church* will be a guest of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI at the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, Italy from October 7 to 28, […]

Uniting Church in Australia Calls for Action on Child Labor

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
Uniting Church in Australia Calls for Action on Child Labor

The Western Australian Synod of the Uniting Church issued a statement pointing out unfair labor practices by one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world: The Hershey Company.  According to a study released showing how different companies are combating child labor practices, Hershey placed among the lowest of the major manufacturers. “From what companies […]

Church puts spotlight on Congo conflict

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
Church puts spotlight on Congo conflict

To call attention to continuing human rights atrocities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, United Methodists and others traveled to the United States and Canada to promote a petition for peace; testified before a U.S. congressional subcommittee; and met with DRC President Joseph Kabila. The 2012 United Methodist General Conference, the denomination’s top legislative body, […]

United Methodist Church Working to Connect and Empower Haiti

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
United Methodist Church Working to Connect and Empower Haiti

Days after the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti, the nonprofit enterprise Inveneo was inundated with calls to help reestablish a portion of the country’s infrastructure that most people overlooked – their connection to the internet for smaller non-governmental organizations that helped with the needs for necessities such as food, water, health care, and sanitation. In the […]

Methodist Church in Great Britain and Church of England Announce Partnership

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
Methodist Church in Great Britain and Church of England Announce Partnership

The Methodist Church in Great Britain and the Church of England have announced a regional partnership between the 85 Anglican parishes and the 65 Methodist churches in the Yorkshire area of the United Kingdom. The agreement calls for a greater sharing of clergy, increased joint services, working together to support mission and ministry and even […]

World Methodist Evangelism Announces Africa Summit

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
World Methodist Evangelism Announces Africa Summit

World Methodist Evangelism is bringing together leaders in Evangelism/Mission in the Methodist Movement on the Continent of Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town and Dakar to Durban from 1-8 December, 2012.   During the past few years the World Methodist Evangelism Institute has held a series of Summits for Evangelism in the Methodist Movement.  The […]

More News from the Uniting Church in Australia

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
More News from the Uniting Church in Australia

The Methodist memory is alive and well in the Uniting Church in Australia. A large audience gathered to hear this year’s Sugden Lecture at Queen’s College, a former Methodist (now Uniting) foundation at the University of Melbourne.  The College’s first Master (head) in 1887 was the Rev. Dr Edward Holdsworth Sugden, editor of a significant […]

Help Support the Susanna Wesley Prayer Garden

Posted on October 5, 2012 by admin in October 2012
Help Support the Susanna Wesley Prayer Garden

As autumn begins in earnest in the southern United States, time has begun to prepare the Susanna Wesley Prayer Garden for another beautiful year. The garden, located on the campus of the World Methodist Council’s International Headquarters in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, was created to be a place of contemplation and prayer for the residents […]

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