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Rebuilding global solidarity for climate action
More worrying climate news. Is our international system still up to today’s challenges? Earlier this month the EU’s Copernicus research institute revealed that 2025 was the third hottest year on record globally. The first and second hottest years were 2024 … Continue reading
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Will anything other than might be right?
“Enduring solutions will not rest on the logic of force, but on the foundations of justice, equality and the right to self-determination.” (Statement from Palestinian Christian leaders in 2025)1. Current news headlines illustrate that we are witnessing the clash of two fundamentally opposed understandings of international relations. The understanding that has largely prevailed since the Second World War was that peace … Continue reading
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Iona Community and Joint Public Issues Team announce new partnership
Christian witness for peace and justice will be strengthened thanks to a newly announced partnership between the Iona Community and the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) of the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches. As “resourcing partners”, the two groups … Continue reading
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Introducing Adam
I’m Adam and I’m pleased to introduce myself as the newest addition to the Joint Public Issues Team. I will be joining as the Advocacy Coordinator within the Methodist Church to help the JPIT churches amplify their impact and bring … Continue reading
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The world trembles
In a guest blog, Revd Charity Tozivepi-Nzegwu reflects on recent international events. I have learnt that there are moments when the world trembles, not because violence has already erupted, but because the conditions for it are being normalised. When power … Continue reading
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After COP30: Balancing Lament & Hope
Watching from afar through headlines and Instagram posts, I was unsure how to feel about COP30 last month. As a former youth climate striker, my teenage sense of optimism has been somewhat dampened. The more I learn about politics, negotiation, and multilateral cooperation, the more exasperated I become. It’s easy to be cynical towards COP as a … Continue reading
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Child poverty: a step forward
JPIT’s Paul Morrison explains the context for the response from faith leaders to the government’s child poverty strategy Today faith leaders have responded to last week’s child poverty strategy. The headline from the strategy, and the headline from the leaders’ … Continue reading
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Child poverty strategy “a welcome step in the right direction”, say faith leaders
Senior faith leaders have issued a joint response to the government’s recently published Child Poverty Strategy. In it, they “celebrate” the most significant policy change in the strategy, the removal of the two-child limit on benefits, which is set to … Continue reading
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Is Tommy Robinson the person to put Christ back into Christmas?
What will Unite the Kingdom’s rally really put into Christmas? Every year, there are calls to ‘put Christ back into Christmas’. The gospel good news message of love, peace, goodwill and hope embodied in Christ’s coming is desperately needed in … Continue reading
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‘Good news of great joy… for all!’
Supporting churches to respond to the co-option of Christmas by the Far Right Local churches across the UK will already have well-developed plans for celebrating Christmas – both in our church buildings and with our wider communities. Each of us … Continue reading
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