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Article: UMC suspends funding for NCC.(United Methodist Church, National Council of Churches; fiscal disagreements has breaking of financial ties)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 27, 1999
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The United Methodist Church, the largest member denomination of the National Council of Churches, has suspended its basic financial support of the ecumenical agency because of concern over the NCC's debt and its fiscal practices. The decision, by the denomination's Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, came after five hours of closed discussion during the commission's October 7-10 meeting in Daytona Beach, Florida.
"We're hopeful and expectant that this suspension will be very brief," said William Boyd Grove, ecumenical officer for the United Methodist Council of Bishops. The United Methodist Church, with some 8.2 million members, is one of ...