With the Brexit deadline extended until the end of October 2019, the UK will now take part in the European elections on 23 May 2019.
To help make sense of this vote and how Christians should respond, guides to the elections have been produced by the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT), the Scottish Churches Parliamentary Office (SCPO), and the Conference of European Churches CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe )CCME).
JPIT‘s Think Pray Vote for the European Elections 2019 provides useful background to the vote and encourages Christians to turn up even when it’s difficult. It can be downloaded from the JPIT website.
SCPO‘s resource is designed for Church groups who would like to know more about the elections and/or who may be planning an election meeting in their local area. Download from the SCPO website.
The CEC/CCME guide, Europe: It’s OUR future – Church Action in the 2019 European Parliament elections, looks at the elections from the perspective of churches across Europe and encourages Christians to get involved in the elections and ‘participate in the development of the European project’. It’s available from the CEC website.
