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UCC in Focus | Indigenous
United Church is putting money toward healing Indigenous relations
The General Council Executive is also creating an Aboriginal Ministries Council to bring together Indigenous ministries in the church and hiring seven staff for it
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UCC in Focus | Health
United Church hospitals in remote areas are few but necessary
Over the years, the United Church has owned and staffed about 30 hospitals and medical clinics. Today, four remain
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World | Justice
Famine epidemic stalks the world’s poor, but solutions are at hand
Spiking food prices have caused a world food crisis. It's rooted in petro-politics and the flaws of the global food system
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UCC in Focus | Money
United Church digests report citing distrust, lack of leadership
The damning report, by an outside consultancy, says the church is nowhere near ready to launch a major fundraising campaign
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UCC in Focus | Money
United Church task force wants triple tithes on real estate sales
The task group also proposes to launch an inventory to evaluate the church's billions of dollars in property assets, part of a bold new plan to finance new churches
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UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church has a lot of messages to impart, and is working on it
Breakdowns in communication can occur between the pews and the General Council, and also to the world at large
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UCC in Focus | Indigenous
United Church searches archives for those dead at residential schools
As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission gears up, the United Church and others are scouring the archives for names of children who died at the schools and whose names have been forgotten
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UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church’s rural congregations are reinventing themselves
More than half of the United Church's preaching places are in rural communities and they are changing as the rural fabric of Canada changes. Some have died but many are rebounding
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UCC in Focus | History
20 years after the United Church raised the rainbow flag, we are still talking about inclusion
The movement to welcome people of all sexual orientations into the United Church hits the quarter-century mark this year. While its numbers remain low, its influence is growing
