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Blog, Environment, Uncategorized · 30 March, 2023

Local elections: what have they got to do with climate change?

*** You now need photo ID to vote in person in local elections in England and in UK general elections. You can vote by proxy or by post, but both require an online application. The deadline for registering to vote is April 17th. Find out more at jpit.uk/voterid.*** Don’t councils just fix …

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Asylum and Migration, Blog · 14 March, 2023

Homes for Ukraine – One Year On

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Homes for Ukraine Scheme. More than 8 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their home country due to the war so far, and over 165,000 have been safely resettled in the UK. This is largely due to thousands of households welcoming strangers into their …

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Asylum and Migration, Church Statements · 8 March, 2023

Response to the ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ – March 2023

Over 1000 church leaders from across the UK have joined senior Church leaders from JPIT's denominations in a joint statement expressing opposition to the government's new 'Illegal Migration Bill': We are appalled by the proposals in the government’s ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ to detain, punish and …

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Blog, Peacemaking, Uncategorized · 24 February, 2023

Ukraine Invasion – One Year On

On the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, our church leaders have made statements on the continuing war and how we can respond. Baptists Together It is with tremendous sorrow that one year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine there are few signs of the war coming to an end anytime …

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Blog · 30 December, 2022

JPIT’s Review of 2022

2022 has been a year of so many highs, lows and Prime Ministers! Here, the JPIT team take us through a review of their favourite things to come out from this year. We wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas and every blessing in 2023. Dave Favourite read: Apeirogon by Colum McCann – an …

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Asylum and Migration, Blog, Welcoming Environment · 16 December, 2022

What does Government Support for Asylum Seekers really provide?

We’ve got used to seeing the UK government’s approach to asylum seekers when they arrive in the UK in the news over the past couple of years. From the upsetting description of conditions in processing centres to plans to send “illegitimate” claimants to Rwanda upon entry, there hasn’t been much …

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Asylum and Migration, Blog · 14 December, 2022

God with Us – the Refugees of Calais and Dunkirk

Ella Sibley-Ryan, Mission Projects Officer for the Methodist Church, writes about her experiences volunteering with refugees in France. The people sleeping rough in Calais and Dunkirk have come from Sudan, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia and countries all over the Middle East and …

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Environment · 24 November, 2022

How can we respond to COP27?

COP27, the UN’s climate conference in Egypt, came to a close at the weekend. It finished with some encouragements as well as disappointments. Hannah and Steve spent 10 minutes chatting through a roundup of what happened in a new episode of our podcast - click here to listen. Whilst COP27 might be …

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Church Statements, Environment, Politics and Elections · 21 November, 2022

Statement on the conclusion of the COP27 Climate Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

Monday 21 NovemberThe Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church. While we are extremely conscious of the cost-of-living crisis and the economic bearing it is having here in the UK, we cannot ignore the tremendous impact of climate change in other parts of …

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Environment · 16 November, 2022

COP27 – what should we be looking for?

At COP27[1], the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, made headlines on the opening day when he stated that “we are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator”. Some commentators saw this as exaggerated rhetoric to capture the headlines. Yet even the sober judgements of …

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