Rabobank investeert in Europese digitale soevereiniteit, maar heeft tegelijk de grote Amerikaanse spelers hard nodig voor cyberveiligheid. „Het gaat om continuïteit en weerbaarheid, niet om ideologie en landen.”

Dit jaar hebben zelfs populaire festivals als Lowlands nog kaarten over. Wat zeggen de cijfers? „De behoefte om samen festivals te beleven is onverminderd groot.”

De voetbalelftallen van de Democratische Republiek Congo en Chili spelen volgende week dinsdag geen oefenwedstrijd in het Zuid-Spaanse La Línea de la Concepción.

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The Epworth building in Pirie Street, Adelaide city, was a reminder of the Methodist church reaching a unified peak after being a strong, but divided, element of South Australian history from European settlement.

In 1900,South Australian Methodism’s three branches – the Wesleyans, Bible Christians, Primitive Methodists – united over common ideals and worship practices, as well as economic efficiency. This meant the Bible Christians and Primitive Methodists succumbed to the Wesleyan Church with twice the numbers, the best buildings and a generally better educated ministry as the central stream flowing from John Wesley.

The union of Methodism between 1920 and 1930 saw 52 churches and 43 halls built, with church funds and properties consolidated. By the 1920s, the Pirie Street Methodist Church, considered the church’s “cathedral”, needed more space for offices and a new home for its book depot, previously in King William Street, Adelaide city.

On January 17, 1924, the church’s building board decided to construct a new building next to the church. Minister William Robinson, the church's first full-time connexional secretary from 1926, was one of the principal advocates of building a church connexional administration building – named Epworth after John Wesley's birthplace in Lincolnshire, England. It was built on the site of the manse, next door to Pirie Street Methodist Church.

The Tudor revival mansion manse, built in 1853 at a cost of £1200, was demolished in 1925 to make way for the six-storey Epworth Building. The office building was designed by the architects George Soward and Thomas English, with C.H. Martin the builder and H.G. Jenkinson as consulting engineer.

When completed in 1927, at a cost of £68,469, the building had two modern lifts, electric light and bathrooms on each floor. Its gothic style, evident in the building’s moulds, ornamental column tops and cornices, was highly praised. It remained the largest remaining gothic revival commercial building in Adelaide city. One of the original building tenants was the Methodist Book Depot that, before 1900, was three separate book depots for each denomination. In 1929, tin became the Epworth Book Depot.

The adjacent Wesley Pirie Street Methodist Church, built in 1850 to seat more than 1000, amalgamated in 1969 with the Stow Congregational Church in Flinders Street. The Pirie Street church was demolished in 1976 to make way for the Adelaide city council’s Colonel Light Centre offices.

In 1977, the Methodist Church became part of the Uniting Church of Australia. The Uniting Church decided in 2003 to sell the Epworth Building to private interests. The stained glass over its foyer entrance continued to commemorate the office building's strong link to the Methodist community heritage in South Australia.

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A quest to deliver the “biggest complaint Fifa has ever received” is being launched by campaigners a week before the World Cup.

With fans concerned over safety and the cost of tickets at the tournament, and complaints ongoing against Fifa from human rights organisations and football competitions, a class action-style complaint is calling for an investigation into the president, Gianni Infantino.

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