Rome (NEV), May 25, 2019 – “Remember to sign. Remind the last ones that there is hope”. These are the words chosen by the Christian Baptist Evangelical Union of Italy (UCEBI) to ask taxpayers to allocate their 8 x thousand to the Baptists.
The UCEBI General Assembly decided to take advantage of the 8 x thousand in 2008, “for humanitarian, social and cultural purposes only”, according to the Law 222/85. In line with that decision, the UCEBI “continues every year to use the 100% of the funds received with extreme precision, assigning them – up to the last cent – exclusively to social, welfare, humanitarian and cultural actions, in Italy and abroad”, as it can be read on its official website (https://www.ottopermillebattista.org). On this website it is also possible to consult the complete reports of the years 2016-2018.
Among the activities carried out by UCEBI with the 8 x thousand funds, in compliance with a programmatic motion approved during the last ordinary assembly, there is the Medical Hope project of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy (FCEI), a health care project that since its beginning in 2016 helped several Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Italy.
The Baptist assembly also allocated special funding to Intersos, to cover the costs of the Primary Care and Reception Center in the Torre Spaccata outskirts of Rome, near the UCEBI headquarters in the Alessandrino district. On Friday, May 24th, UCEBI’s president, pastor Giovanni Arcidiacono, and the general secretary of Intersos, Kostas Moschochoritis, visited the project Intersos24.
Who are the Baptists? “To explain it in a simple way we can say: the Christians of the church of Martin Luther King”, this is what we read on the UCEBI website. UCEBI is a member of the FCEI. It was founded in 1956 bringing together the legacy of the Christian Apostolic Baptist Union (UCAB), founded in 1884 by the English and American missions that arrived in Italy in the 1860s, heirs in their turn of the Anabaptists and of what is known as the 17th century Radical English Reformation.
“I fight for a dream. That today include not only overcoming racism, but also poverty in every corner of the planet”. Martin Luther King
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