UMNS Daily Digest - August 31, 2010 (Religious zoning battles, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast service

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                          Tuesday, August 31, 2010
                [5]Zoning battles endanger religious freedom
                [6]Baptismal waters bless post-Katrina church
                [7]Mississippi churches thank Katrina workers
                   [8]History commission meets in Budapest


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    âWe have rebuilt our church, and God truly was the power behind 
our
  success.â --Anita Crump, member of Bethany United Methodist Church 
in New
                                  Orleans.

Zoning battles endanger religious freedom

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) â A proposal to build an Islamic center 
near ground
   zero in New York is drawing a great deal of national attention, 
but battles
   over religious zoning are being fought throughout the country. 
Political
   scientist Anthony Gill of the University of Washington says it is 
difficult
   to estimate the number of cases nationally where local communities 
have
   tried to restrict religious buildings, but he gets the sense from 
his
   research that the number is increasing. And it is no small matter. 
The issue
   of whether religious groups can build sanctuaries convenient to 
their
   members is critical to the free exercise of religion.

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Baptismal waters bless post-Katrina church

   NEW ORLEANS (UMNS) â A cloudy sky and blustery breezes greeted 
worshippers
   gathering  Aug.  29 at Bethany United Methodist Church, a scene 
eerily
   reminiscent of Hurricane Katrinaâs approach five years ago. But on 
this
   Sunday, worshippers at Bethany and in many churches across the 
region gave
   thanks  for  people all over the country who welcomed nearly 1 
million
   evacuees from the Greater New Orleans area. Most of all, as they 
prayed in
   their renovated worship center, Bethany members praised God.

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Mississippi churches thank Katrina workers

   BILOXI, Miss. (UMNS) â Hurricane Katrina tore a gaping hole in the 
side of
   Mississippi City United Methodist Church in Gulfport. The organ 
was tossed
   upside down. On top was a worship book open to the âHymn of 
Promise.â That
   was the hymn the congregation sang in a remembrance service Aug. 
29. The
   service was one of several throughout the state to give thanks to 
God and to
   the nearly 1 million, and counting, volunteers who have come and 
continue to
   come to rebuild homes on Mississippiâs Gulf Coast.

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History commission meets in Budapest

   BUDAPEST,  Hungary  (UMNS)  â For the first time, the United 
Methodist
   Commission on Archives and History, led by Washington Area Bishop 
John R.
   Schol and the Rev. Bob Williams, held a meeting outside the United 
States.
   The commission presented its Distinguished Service Award to the 
Rev. Helmut
   Nausner of Austria, a leader in theological, historical and 
ecumenical work
   in Europe. The Aug. 9-10 event in Budapest preceded the Fourth 
Historical
   Conference organized by the European Methodist Historical 
Commission.


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