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• Welcoming the “Stranger”
    In 2002, two million immigrant workers earned less than the minimum wage and immigrant women earn substantially lower wages than immigrant men or native women.6 Immigrants, both documented [persons
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  ”4 According to the Urban Institute Immigration Studies Program, “immigrants compose an increasingly large share of the U.S. labor force and a growing share of low-wage workers. Immigrants, bot
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• Immigration
  Immigrant advocacy groups such as the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), the National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights, the National Council of La Raza and the
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• Children, Immigration, and Health Care
  Children, immigration and health care -- all three issues will be before the Friday, May 15 morning session of the May 14-17 Women’s Assembly in Orlando, Fla. All three issues need women’s attention
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• Children, Immigration, Health Care
  Protection and caring for children is at the heart of the mission of United Methodist Women, which has always worked to improve the conditions in children's lives; to advocate for nutrition, health ca
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• Joshua: Conquest, Peasant Revolt, & Immigration
  A rapid reading of the Book of Joshua suggests that the conquest model is an airtight case. Like the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges was edited by the Deuteronomistic Historians. This page is an
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• Taking Action for Justice: Supporting the Civil Rights of South Asians, Muslims and Arabs in the US
  Since September 11, the fear of terrorist attacks has been used to justify a series of laws and regulations that have restricted immigrant rights, legitimized racial profiling by law enforcement agent
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• The “Hearthhold of God” In Our Midst: A Relection on Immigrants
  ”[iv] The God of the Bible is a Traveling God. ”[v] Our God is a Migrant God who always travels to the margins, and takes up his residence with people at the margins. God appears to Hagar, and this
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  United Methodists will have opportunities this summer to take up the cause of South Asians, Muslims, and Arabs who are detained or being deported from the USA without consideration of their basic huma
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• South Asians and Muslims Detained without Rights
  United Methodists will have opportunities this summer to take up the cause of South Asians, Muslims, and Arabs who are detained or being deported from the USA without consideration of their basic huma
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• Mission Personnel Stories
  This year, the Women’s Division has voted to give $2.4 million to mission personnel, which include deaconesses, church and community center workers, US-2s and mission interns. Allison Blount, a church
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• Living the Legacy
  1939 The Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church merge to form The Methodist Church. 1972 The Women’s organizations in The United Method
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• Response Daily May 14, 1998
  Ruth Palmer, a diaconal minister and executive director of Wesley Community Center in Houston, Texas; Elmira Sellu, national coordinator of women's programs for United Methodist Women in Sierra Leone;
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• MISSION OUTREACH NOTES
  Emergency Assistance Program; Casa Villaneuva Shelter; Kiddie World & La Escuelita Day Care; State Pre-school; ESL Classes; Family Resource Center; Senior Nutrition Program; Youth skills Program; Form
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• Assembly Highlights
  Senior United Nations economic officer, Ruth Bamela Engo-Tjega, will address participants on the needs of poor women around the world. Many members of United Methodist Women already have been involve
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• News Releases
  The Women’s Division National Seminar at Scarritt-Bennett Center will help United Methodist Women from diverse backgrounds and age groups analyze global issues affecting women, children and youth; loo
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• MISSION OUTREACH NOTES
  DESCRIPTION: Emergency Assistance Program; Casa Villaneuva Shelter; Kiddie World & La Escuelita Day Care; State Pre-school; ESL Classes; Family Resource Center; Senior Nutrition Program; Youth skills
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• Congress Rejects Health Benefits for Pregnant Legal Immigrants and Kids
  Republican leaders in Congress turned back an effort to restore health benefits for legal immigrant pregnant women and children. The Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act (ICHIA) would have giv
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• Printer Pages
  I have been discriminated against because of my ethnic heritage. I have been discriminated against because of the region of the US I am from. I have been discriminated against because of my immigratio
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• Seminar News
  Whether the seminar topic was human rights, peacemaking or homelessness or immigration, participants in many NY seminars this spring examined hate crimes as a major stumbling block in the path of dis
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