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Maria Ruth Neto was born in 1936 in Luanda in Portuguese Angola, [1] as the younger sister of Agostinho Neto, who would become the first president of independent Angola. [2] Their father, Agostinho Pedro Neto, was a Methodist minister, who worked at an American mission in Luanda, [3] [4] and their mother, Maria da Silva, was a school teacher.
Over time, John Wesley organised converts locally, founding Methodist "societies", organised into "circuits", and linked in a "connexion". All preachers were in were in connexion primarily with him and thence with each other. [3] John and Charles Wesley, along with four other ministers and four lay preachers, met for consultation in London in ...
Supergirl – real name is Linda Danvers, the fictional character of Supergirl (the post-Crisis version written prominently by Peter David during the late 1980s and 1990s) was an active Methodist. Supergirl's minister, Rev. Larry Varvel, was based on a real-life Methodist minister of the same name.
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Harold Good O.B.E.(born 1937 in Derry) is an Irish Methodist who, in 2005, played a vital role in the Northern Ireland peace process. [1] In October 2024 the Dublin publisher Red Stripe Press published Good's memoir, "In Good Time", A Memoir with Martin O'Brien. He trained as a hospital chaplain at Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis in 1967 ...
The Methodist Peace Fellowship is a British Methodist Christian pacifist organisation. The Methodist Peace Fellowship (MPF) was founded by Rev. Henry Carter in 1933 to inform and unite Methodists who covenanted together "to renounce war and all its works and ways."' It is part of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Members were traditionally ...
While working in India, Pickett met Ruth Robinson, the daughter of John Wesley Robinson, a Methodist bishop for Southern Asia. Ruth had been born in Lucknow on March 9, 1895. [ 15 ] The two were attracted to each other, but Ruth insisted on obtaining a college degree and returned to the United States where she attended Northwestern University ...
Mary Shapard (c. 1882–1950s) – American author and peace activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; she was reportedly the first American to advocate for the formation of a "league of nations" during World War I and was also reportedly the source of the original text used by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to draft his Covenant of ...