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July
12 articles found for July, 2000.
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Imagine Loving Your Child: Inspiring Story of Living with AIDS
As the holidays approach, we naturally think
of children, happy, healthy children. We think of
children enjoying Christmas and looking forward
to many happy holidays. Unfortunately, some
children, right here, children we pass every day,
in the store, on the street, have AIDS. I know
this because one of them is our son. He was born
to a drug-addicted mother. She had AIDS and
unknowingly passed the virus to our child. We
adopted him when he was 3 weeks old. Ten months
later we found out he was HIV positive.
Date posted:Jul 31, 2000
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The United States has offered $1 billion to fight
AIDS in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa
hardest hit by the pandemic. Most of the US help
will be in the form of loans to purchase AIDS
drugs and other related medical equipment from the
United States.
Date posted:Jul 28, 2000
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"If the United States wants peace to come to the
Democratic Republic of Congo, it will come. If the
churches raise their voices, the government will
listen. Churches, the time has come to raise your
voices!"
Date posted:Jul 28, 2000
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On July 12th, Digya Salek, a Sahrawi woman from
Algeria, presented a briefing at the United
Methodist Building in Washington, DC. Her goal was
to mobilize US support for a referendum on the
future of Western Sahara. According to Ms. Salek,
Western Sahara is the only remaining colony on the
African continent.
Date posted:Jul 27, 2000
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Humanitarian organizations have told the
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)
that because of economic hardships in Congo's
capital, Kinshasa, the likelihood of generalized
social upheaval is becoming "a growing concern."
Date posted:Jul 26, 2000
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The resumption of fighting in the past two weeks
between Ugandan-backed MLC rebels and Congolese
government troops is wreaking havoc in the
Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of
Congo. Many families are missing, hundreds of
civilians have been killed, and an estimated
40,000 people have taken refuge in neighboring
Congo-Brazzaville.
Date posted:Jul 25, 2000
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Global Praise in Germany
Fantastic, fantastic, absolutely fantastic! On
July 12th over 400 listeners enjoyed the Global
Praise concert in the municipal hall in Korntal
near Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg) and at the
conclusion many were so thrilled that they were
speechless. Almost everyone of importance in the
field of music in worldwide Methodism was
present.
Date posted:Jul 23, 2000
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A year ago I traveled in South Africa, Angola, and
Zimbabwe to do research for a children's mission
study on the theme "Hope for the Children of
Africa," which I was preparing to write for the
General Board of Global Ministries of the United
Methodist Church. On that first trip to the
continent, I was both awed by the beauty of the
land and deeply saddened by suffering among so
many African people, particularly children whose
lives had been devastated by war, sickness, and
poverty.
Date posted:Jul 20, 2000
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After a three-day summit in Lome, Togo, several
African heads of state agreed to form a new
organization modeled after the European Union. The
idea of an African Union, as the organization will
be called, was promoted by Libyan leader Muammar
al-Qaddafi. It will oversee diplomatic, economic,
and defense issues.
Date posted:Jul 18, 2000
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The New York-based International Rescue Committee
(IRC) recently released a report claiming that the
war in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic
of Congo is killing an average of 2,600 civilians
per day. An estimated 1.7 million people have been
killed since the war began, according to the
report. "It's as if the entire population of
Houston was wiped off the face of the earth in a
matter of months," said Reynold Levy,
International Rescue Committee president.
Date posted:Jul 14, 2000
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Susan Reynolds, senior editor and Farm Safety Day
Camp program director of Progressive Farmer
magazine, went to teach home economics at the
Ganta United Methodist Mission in Liberia.
Date posted:Jul 11, 2000
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Hours before the opening of the 13th Annual AIDS
Conference in Durban, South Africa, thousands of
people protested against the inaccessibility of
AIDS medicine to poor people infected by the
pandemic in developing countries. They accused
pharmaceutical companies of protracting the
suffering of AIDS patients by setting drug prices
too high.
Date posted:Jul 11, 2000
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