UMNS Daily Digest - March 7, 2011 (poverty, federal budget, malaria, Muslims, Pakistan)
From "United Methodist News Service" <newsdesk@umcom.org>Date Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:57:49 -0800
To ensure consistent delivery, please add [1]newsdesk@umcom.org to your contact and/or safe senders list. [2]View Online | [3]Add to Address Book | [4]Subscribe UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service 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 [9]Lenten Resources» [10]UMTV: Teens Opposing Poverty» [11]UMTV: Free Pharmacy Serves Uninsured» [12]Read Additional UMNS Stories» [13] Find us on Facebook [14] Twitter Contact Us [15]E-mail (615) 742-5470 "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. [17]Read full story and post a comment» 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." [19]Read full story» Did someone you know pass along this copy to you? Get your own copy [20]here. United Methodist News Service is a ministry of United Methodist Communications. 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