Page 2, 31st January 1969
Page 2, 31st January 1969 — Methodist and Anglican youth merger urged
People: R. EDWARD GARDNER, Francisco Monteiro
By Mark Bowles
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Unity Committee To Be Set Up With Methodists
Page 1 from 22nd July 1966
Church Seals Agreement With Methodists
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Christian Co-operation Progresses
Page 3 from 4th July 1941
Church Playing Full Part In Unity Week
Page 1 from 10th January 1969
Methodist and Anglican youth merger urged
Keywords: Methodism, Goa, Konkan, Religion / Belief
THE Anglican and Methodist Churches' youth departments, in a joint statement this week, call for ever closer co-operation leading to a joint strategy in their work among young people. In a booklet called "Half a Million"—a reference to the 500.000 young people they serve—the two groups point out that immeasurable advantages would accrue from a practical sharing of manpower, expertise, plant, premises and money in any locality. The problem of integrating the bulge of second-generation immigrant school-leavers and of coping with drug-dependence found existing youth organisations largely ineffective.
"Increasingly, too, the overlap between the multiplicity of social and educational agencies, including those sponsored by the Churches. is seen to be wasteful and inefficient. The need for integration and cooperation is urgent.
"If, in such a process, there is some sacrifice and even loss of identity, this should be acceptable to a Church which claims the role of the servant."
Goa priest fights expulsion order
MR. EDWARD GARDNER, Q.C., has gone to India for the third time to continue the case of Fr. Francisco Monteiro, the Goan priest who has refused to assume Indian nationality and is threatened with expulsion. An Indian appeal court, which began its hearing on Monday, is being asked by Mr. Gardner to set aside the expulsion order issued in 1967 by the Governor of Goa. Fr. Monteiro's case rests on the Geneva Convention clauses relating to the protection of citizens and on the general view that a man cannot be expelled from his birthplace.