Articles and Letters
- United
Methodists to Spend $1 Million on Land Mine Removal, UMNS, October 16, 2000
- Watch Your Step!!! Upfront with Youth about
Landmines by Faye Wilson, April, 2000
- Letter to President Clinton Regarding the Land Mines Treaty by Bishop Judith Craig-- The awarding of the Nobel Prize leaves me all the more surprised and
dismayed at the refusal of the United States to sign the Land Mine Treaty.
- Steps Away from a Mine-Free World by William Sage upcoming article in New World Outlook Magazine (Nov-Dec 1997) -- In December of this year, Canada will host the Ottawa Treaty Signing Conference, intended to speed up the ban on landmines.
- Antonio's Smile by Ann Stone, R.N., United
Methodist missionary at Chicuque Rural Hospital, Mozambique, 1997
Taking the Initiative on Landmines by Dan E. Solomon in New World Outlook Magazine (Jan-Feb 1997)-- Bishop Solomon provides information about the danger of landmines and says that we must take the initiative to let our people in Congress know our thinking on this issue--as well as countless others.
Special Note: Bishop's Solomon's Article on Landmines was featured as the "Pro" for Banning Landmines perspective on the Pro and Con Website, sponsored by Non-line: The Nonprofit Network. Not only is New World Outlook's article on Non-line's website but Pro and Con sent it to their 20,000 e-mail subscribers. (October 21, 1997)
- United Methodist Missionaries Witness Tragedies Caused by Landmines, the Stones' experience in Mozambique-- They say that landmines continue to cause irreparable damage in the lives of innocent victims long after wars have ended.
News and Stories
- United Methodists
Continue to Pursue Land Mine Removal, UMNS, April 11, 2000
- Urgent Action Needed on the Landmine Treaty Today!, General Board of Church and Society Release, February 16, 2000
- Agency launches study of removing landmines, UMNS, April 26, 1999
- Presentation on Landmines by Dr. Randolph Nugent, General Secretary at the GBGM Spring Board Meeting on April 19, 1999
- United Methodists provide artificial limbs in Angola, UMNS, July 17, 1998
- United Methodist Missionaries Witness Tragedies Caused by Landmines
- Women's Division Becomes Sponsoring Organization of U.S. Committee to Ban Landmines, UMNS, October 21, 1997
- Washington Rally Supports Global Ban on Landmines, UMNS, September 24, 1997-- United Methodists were among the participants in a Sept. 22 lunch-time rally on the steps of the
U.S. Capitol calling for U.S. support of a global ban on landmines.
Resolutions
GBGM Links
Photo: Close-up of a mine exposed by the shifting sands of the desert. UN/DPI Photo by J. Isaac.
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