The Italian Methodist Church was a non-episcopal Methodist church which was integrated into the Waldensian Evangelical Church in 1974–1979, in order to form the Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches. Contextually an "Opus for the Methodist Churches in Italy" was established in order to maintain ecumenical relations, maintain the connection with world Methodism, administer the Methodist properties such as churches, and finance the work of pastors and deacons.
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This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
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Within the very object that we seek,
Participants of its being.”
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