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News 1999
- Emergency Consultation on Family Farm Crisis and Hate/Violence in Rural Places
- Churches consider strategies against hate and violence, UMNS, November 19, 1999
- General Conference to consider hate crimes resolution, UMNS, November 19, 1999
- Acts of hate can be linked in unseen ways, commentary by the Rev. Gilbert Caldwell, November 3, 1999
Texas Church Shootings
Wedgwood Baptist Church, Fort Worth, TX, 9/15/99
- Ten things we can do to break the chain of violence, the Rev. R. David Shawver from his sermon "Coming In Last" given September 19, 1999, First United Methodist Church of Richardson, Texas
- Wedgwood Baptist Church Home Page
- Church Shooting, Dallas Morning News
- Fort Worth Church Shooting, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- Church assault: Tragedy rips our moral senses, feelings of safety, Dallas Morning News, September 17, 1999
- Symbols of safety become targets, The Christian Science Monitor,
September 17,1999
- Churchgoers in Dallas cite need for prayer, Dallas Morning News, September 16, 1999
- Nowhere to run? Violence moving to places once considered to be safe, Dallas Morning News, September 16, 1999
- People of Faith Rally as Klan Comes to Cleveland, UMNS, August 23, 1999
- Targeted by Hate Group, Pastor and Congregation Respond with Prayer, UMNS, August 23, 1999
- Vermont churches respond to "hate ministry," UMNS, July 29, 1999
July Bias Shootings in Midwest and California
- Bloomington Mourns Death of Korean Student, UMNS, July 13, 1999
- United Methodist Killed in Bloomington, IN by Sharon Maeda, GBGM, July 6, 1999
- White supremacist charged with shooting Korean student at church, UMNS, July 6, 1999
- Matson-Mowder Murders Record Searchlight Archives, Redding, California
- Sacramento Synagogues Arsons Page, Sacramento Bee, ongoing coverage includes information about the murder of a gay male couple, Gary Matson and Winfield Scott Mowder because their alleged murders, Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams, are also suspected of the arsons of the synagogues.
- Author Advocates for Truth and Teaching About Hate, Women's Division, GBGM, April 19, 1999
- Recommendation Elicits Dialogue on Homosexuality, Women's Division, GBGM, April 19, 1999
News 1998
- Hate crimes targeted by United Methodist
Women, UMNS, October 20, 1998
- Recent Hate Crimes Prompt Women’s
Division Action Women's Division, GBGM, October 19, 1998
- Bishop, other United Methodists condemn killing of gay
student, UMNS, October 16, 1998
- United Methodists continue to assist
burned churches, March 25, 1998
- United Methodists distribute nearly
$300,000 to burned churches, March 25, 1998
- United Methodist volunteers help
reconstruct burned churches, March 25, 1998
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