UMNS Daily Digest - March 7, 2011 (poverty, federal budget, malaria, Muslims, Pakistan)

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                           Monday, March 7, 2011
               [5]Faith leaders look at budget's 'moral' impact
              [6]NBC special to focus on efforts against malaria
                     [7]NCC head denounces Islam hearings
               [8]Mission leader decries Pakistan assassination


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 "The message is consistent year in and year out: We want to make sure we're
  protecting those living in poverty or on the economic margins both in the
                         U.S and around the world."
                 - John Hill, Board of Church and Society.

Faith leaders look at budget's 'moral' impact

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) - The poor have no one staging mass protests on their
   behalf, but religious leaders are speaking out about how proposed changes to
   the U.S. budget for 2011 and 2012 could affect them. In a [16]March 1 letter
   to Congress, 16 religious leaders - including United Methodist Bishop Larry
   Goodpaster, president of the Council of Bishops, and the Rev. John
   McCullough, the United Methodist executive director of Church World Service
   - expressed their full commitment to ministry with the poor.

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NBC special to focus on efforts against malaria

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - On both sides of the ocean, people are working to
   end a disease that takes the life of a child every 45 seconds. An NBC
   special TV program, "[18]A Killer in the Dark: An Extraordinary Effort to
   Combat Malaria," discusses efforts being undertaken by United Methodists and
   others to achieve this goal. Presented by the National Council of Churches
   and produced by United Methodist Communications, the program will be
   available to local NBC affiliates starting May 1. Church members can contact
   their local stations and ask them to schedule "A Killer in the Dark."



NCC head denounces Islam hearings

   NEW YORK (UMNS) - The head of the National Council of Churches was among the
   speakers at a March 6 rally in Times Square opposing congressional hearings
   on Islam being held by U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-NY.
   Although King has denied that his inquiries into Islam are "anti-Muslim,"
   others believe that American Muslims are the targets of bigotry in the name
   of national security. "Today, millions of Muslim Americans are subjected to
   thoughtless generalizations, open discrimination and outright hostility
   because of a tiny minority whose acts of violence deny the teachings of the
   Quran and are denounced by other Muslims," Kinnamon declared.



Mission leader decries Pakistan assassination

   NEW YORK (UMNS) - The United Methodist Church's chief mission leader has
   expressed solidarity with the Christian community in Pakistan in the wake of
   the March 2 assassination of the most prominent Christian in that country's
   government.

   "Shahbaz Bhatti....was by all accounts a man of great integrity and
   dignity," wrote Thomas Kemper, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries,
   in a March 3 letter to Bishop Samuel Azariah, presiding bishop of the Church
   of Pakistan, a board mission partner. "He served his country with loyalty
   even as he opposed strict interpretation of a blasphemy law that would make
   the face of being Christian punishable by death."

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