Monthly Archives: November 2018

View in browser   |   Forward to a friend 8 November 2018 Hello everyone and welcome to The Week Ahead. This Sunday we are marking Remembrance Sunday and Inter Faith Week. Rosie Winn will be staffing the out-of-hours media emergency … Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog Following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi the UK must halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia Posted: 06 Nov 2018 04:25 AM PST In August of this year Saudi Arabia faced an international outcry when dozens … Continue reading →

The Revd Stuart Turner CF, Army Chaplain to the Defence School of Communications and Information Systems at Blandford Garrison, reflects on the centenary of the death of the Revd Theodore Bayley Hardy VC DSO MC, who died of wounds in France on 18 October 1918, less than a month before the armistice. He says: ‘Although… Continue reading →

Wounded. In the Head My grandfather was an Ernest. My grandma said they wouldn’t let him home; he stayed in hospital one whole un-whole year after the War was done. Wounded. In his head. Read More … Continue reading →

View in browser | Forward to a Friend November 2018, issue 180 Welcome to The Buzz!       The Buzz brings all members of the Methodist Church in Britain together by sharing your good news from across the Connexion. Your stories tell … Continue reading →

Each remembering a grandfather­ who fought in, and survived, the 1916 battle of the Somme on opposing sides, friends the Revd David Pickering, Moderator of the United Reformed Church National Synod of Scotland and Pfarrer Martin Henninger, Minister of the Lutherkirche in Frankenthal, travelled to the Somme together and then wrote jointly to a future… Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church General Secretary, has joined six churches and Christian organisations to speak out in support of Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, following her resignation as the minister responsible for gambling. The government have delayed introducing a £2 limit on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) until October 2019. Following a wide-ranging… Continue reading →

Colleagues gathered for cake and heartfelt speeches at the United Reformed Church’s (URC) London office, on 2 November, to say a fond farewell to Gill Nichol, Head of Communications. After nine years at Church House, and five leading the communications department, Gill is moving on to pastures new. Jane Baird, Deputy General Secretary (Administration and… Continue reading →

View in browser   |   Forward to a friend 1 November 2018 Hello everyone and welcome to The Week Ahead. Mike Ivatt will be staffing the out-of-hours media emergency support line on 020 7467 5170. Wishing you all a wonderful … Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog Asia Bibi is free but religious minorities continue to suffer violence, discrimination and abuse in Pakistan Posted: 31 Oct 2018 08:43 AM PDT After 8 years held under sentence of death the Pakistan Supreme Court … Continue reading →