The Methodist Church Relief and Develpment Fund has sent up an emergency fund to aid survivors of the floods in Pakistan.

The World Council of Churches General Secretary has welcomed the British Methodist Conference's “forward looking" resolutions on a just peace for Palestine and Israel.

The Methodist Church has voted to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories and to encourage Methodists across Britain to do the same.

The church does not have a monopoly on God but must serve humanity with extravagant hospitality and humility, the new Vice-President of the Methodist Conference has told the Church's annual gathering.