Why we need a new vision for an economy where everyone can flourish A response to the budget update on 8th July 2020. The Chancellor’s budget update yesterday focused on building employment. The scale of the challenge ahead is huge, and an emergency …
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Journeys of Hope
Refugee Week 2020 For many refugees and asylum seekers, the journey they have been on has been one of hope. Hope for change, hope for refuge, hope to be reunited with those they love. This Refugee Week, we want to highlight some of these stories. At a time when it can be …
Call for changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill
For millions of people across the world, home is far from a safe place to be. As countries have entered into periods of lockdown, those experiencing domestic violence, predominately women, have been placed at greater risk of abuse, as self-isolation has trapped them in their homes with their …
Climate Change and COVID-19
In recent weeks, news coverage has reported the immense drop in carbon emissions seen globally since the coronavirus pandemic hit. We’re undergoing the biggest carbon crash ever recorded. Emissions dropped 18% in China between February and March, and between 40% and 60% over recent weeks in Europe. …
Racial injustice highlighted by COVID-19
People from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK have been disproportionately dying from Coronavirus. Data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) at the beginning of May identified that black people in the UK are 4 times more likely to die from the virus than white people. This is a …
Global Ceasefire Statements
Leaders from JPIT's four denominations have expressed support for a Global Ceasefire, being called for in light of COVID-19. Read more about this campaign here. The following Prayer for Peace has been written by the Revd Steve Faber, Moderator of the URC West Midlands Synod. …
Being Brought Home
Didn’t the same God who made me, make them? (Job 31:15 – The Message) It was welcome news to many British Citizens and their families when, last week, the Foreign Office announced a deal with the airline industry to bring home thousands of stranded tourists struggling to get home because of …
“Put armed conflict on lockdown” – #GlobalCeasefire
At the beginning of April 2020, JPIT’s four partner Churches joined the UN Secretary General’s call for a global ceasefire in order that Governments can respond to the common threat of Coronavirus. “The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war” Antonio Guterres said when announcing the …
Postponement of the Glasgow Climate Summit
We understand the need to postpone the Glasgow COP26 Climate Summit to 2021. It is right that, at this time, governments around the world concentrate on tackling COVID-19. COVID-19 is a huge global emergency, and rightly requires a global response. But the emergency of the …
“God has so composed the body, giving greater honour to the part that lacked it.” Thanking our #EssentialHeroes
Many phrases have entered our common parlance over recent weeks: self-isolation, social distancing, epidemiology, daily state-sanctioned outdoor exercise. Chief among them is key/essential workers. The government have said that the only reason you should leave the house to go to work is if …