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October
20 articles found for October, 2000.
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United Methodism reflects a long history of
commitment to social action. Paramount in that
commitment is advocacy of the right and need of
all people to vote.
Date posted:Oct 31, 2000
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Opposition to Chief Wahoo, the logo for the
Cleveland Indians baseball team, is growing,
according to a Religion News Service article
written by David Briggs, religion editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.
Date posted:Oct 31, 2000
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The HIV epidemic raging across Africa is a tragedy
of epic proportions, one that is altering the
region's demographic future. It is reducing life
expectancy, raising mortality, lowering fertility,
creating an excess of men over women, and leaving
millions of orphans in its wake.
Date posted:Oct 31, 2000
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How do we understand the nature of the church?
Any church. Though we approach this question
from the perspective of the multi-ethnic or
multi-cultural church, how different should the
essence of our ecclesiology be from any other
community of faith gathered in the name of
Jesus? Consider understanding your church as a
sign, foretaste and instrument of the reign of
God.
Date posted:Oct 30, 2000
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Wars, floods and political instability have
ravaged Mozambique, but its people offer a
message of faith and hope. UM Bishop Joao Somane
Machado traveled to the United States to meet
with the Council of Bishops of the UMC.
Date posted:Oct 27, 2000
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The Council for Peace and Reconciliation in
Congo, a network of Christian peace activists,
has joined the UMC and other churches to end the
war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Date posted:Oct 26, 2000
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Jubilee 2000/USA rejoices and congratulates the
U.S. Congress for passing $435 million towards
debt relief for some of the world's most
impoverished countries where most people live on
less than $1 a day.
Date posted:Oct 25, 2000
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The Ugandan church is now in the hands of three
able district superintendents, led by the Rev.
Daniel Wandabula. Relations with the Ugandan
government are good.
Date posted:Oct 24, 2000
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A pilot group of nine missionaries, who will work
at the grass-roots level in their home regions to
improve the lives of women, children and youth,
has been commissioned by the United Methodist
Board of Global Ministries.
Date posted:Oct 17, 2000
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The GBGM is dismayed and deeply saddened by the
escalation of violence in Israel and the
Palestinian Territories. Our hearts grieve as we
learn of the number of persons killed and wounded
in this round of violence, exemplified in the
death of twelve year old Muhammad Rami al-Dura
crouching in fear next to his father at Netzarim
Junction in Gaza.
Date posted:Oct 17, 2000
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I sat at home watching the Israeli news coverage
of the day's events. Amidst a variety of scenes -
mostly peaceful demonstrations and Muslims at
Friday prayers - came a scene from near the US
Consulate in East Jerusalem...
Date posted:Oct 17, 2000
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The GBGM has committed $1 million to complete a
land mine removal project in Mozambique, among
other landmine removal efforts. The project will
return agricultural land, transportation routes
and the grounds of social institutions to full
productivity.
Date posted:Oct 16, 2000
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"To the church gathered here and around the
world, I present your new missionaries." With
that declaration, Bishop Joel Martinez sent forth
the first United Methodist missionaries of the
new quadrennium.
Date posted:Oct 13, 2000
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Dear, dear friends,
A little while ago, the cycle of violence took a
new and horrible turn...
Date posted:Oct 12, 2000
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Peeling paint, leaky ceilings, sagging floors and
patched plumbing do not deter the dream of Bishop
Ruediger Minor and the Rev. Tobias Dietze for a
United Methodist Center in the heart of Moscow.
Date posted:Oct 11, 2000
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Working at Home to Improve the Conditions of Women, Children and Youth
October 10, 2000 - No one understands better the
conditions under which people live than those who
live there and experience the conditions daily.
As the denomination strives to be in mission with
people, today a pilot missionary program is being
initiated. Its goal is to tackle poor living
conditions and human rights issues facing women,
children and youth and to do it by people
familiar with those conditions.
Date posted:Oct 10, 2000
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United Methodist Woman Educates Through Rural Community Health Project
October 10, 2000 - A South Carolina woman will be
using her knowledge about health, nutrition and
disease prevention in an innovative training
initiative that addresses health disparities
among Africa American women in rural South
Carolina.
Date posted:Oct 10, 2000
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New Directors Begin Quadrennium with New Initiatives
October 10, 2000 - Fifty new directors of the
Women’s Division focused their time on issues of
justice, membership and helping to empower women,
children and youth during the first board meeting
of the new quadrennium in Stamford, Conn.,
October 6-9.
Date posted:Oct 10, 2000
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As contributions are distributed in various areas
of the denomination, orphanages are being built
to provide sanctuary for children who have lost
their parents to warfare or the AIDS pandemic;
and schools are being constructed to educate
students forced to flee their villages.
Date posted:Oct 06, 2000
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More than eighty young adults from Zimbabwe and
neighboring regions gathered for a conference
with the theme of "HIV/AIDS: Youth's Challenge in
the New Millennium."
Date posted:Oct 02, 2000
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