UMNS Daily Digest - March 21, 2011 (Bishop Hoshibata, death penalty, domestic violence, immigration,

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                           Monday, March 21, 2011
                        [5]Faith in times of disaster
               [6]Student letters oppose executing mentally ill
                [7]Interpreter: Offering sanctuary from abuse
                 [8]Whitaker opposes Florida immigration bill
              [9]Lenten study explores recent democracy rallies
           [10]Meharry medical students matched with health centers


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   “I find comfort in some of the bedrock statements of faith: God does not
   punish us by causing death and destruction; God is always present with us in
   Spirit; and Christ calls each of us to care for others in love.” — Portland
   (Ore.) Area Bishop Robert Hoshibata


Faith in times of disaster

   PORTLAND, Ore. (UMNS) — In a UMNS commentary, Portland Area United Methodist
   Bishop Robert Hoshibata, a third-generation Japanese American, ponders the
   age-old question raised by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami: “Where is
   God in the midst of such devastation and loss?”

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Student letters oppose executing mentally ill

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) — Vanderbilt Divinity School students gathered on
   campus March 17 to write letters to their state representatives supporting
   two bills that would exclude mentally ill people from execution in
   Tennessee. “There is a big push across the country at this point to exclude
   those individuals—not from justice, not from punishment, not from jail
   time—but to exclude them from the penalty of death,” said the Rev. Brian
   Rossbert, pastor of Centenary and New Bethel United Methodist churches in
   Nashville.

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Interpreter: Offering sanctuary from abuse

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Interpreter) — Some victims of domestic violence are
   finding places of hope and healing in The United Methodist Church.
   Ministries provided through congregations, annual regional conferences and
   churchwide agencies offer refuge, escape, hope and help for rebuilding
   lives.

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Whitaker opposes Florida immigration bill

   LAKELAND, Fla. (UMNS) — Florida United Methodist Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker
   joined other religious leaders on March 11 in calling for the rejection of a
   proposed immigration reform bill in the Florida legislature. The religious
   leaders said the legislation would divide communities, separate families and
   prevent churches from ministering to those in need.
   The proposed legislation, approved by the Judiciary Committee of the Florida
   House of Representatives on March 8, is similar to a measure passed in
   Arizona last year, mandating the use of an employee verification program and
   requiring law-enforcement personnel to check the immigration status of
   anyone who has been arrested, even for minor offenses.


Lenten study explores recent democracy rallies

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) — This week, Encounter Faith: Fearless, a Lenten
   online Bible study and webinar, will explore the recent demonstrations and
   violence in North Africa and Middle East, raising questions about how God
   works in the world and how people’s actions can matter. The United Methodist
   Bible study is available for free at [21]RethinkChurch.org/encounterfaith.


Meharry medical students matched with health centers

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) — Fourth-year [22]Meharry Medical College students
   were matched with prestigious academic centers such as the Mayo Clinic,
   Baylor College of Medicine, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the
   traditional Match Day held at medical schools nationwide March 17.
   More than 30,000 students apply for the match to find a position at a U.S.
   teaching hospital where they will undertake a three- to seven-year period of
   specialized training. Meharry’s overall match rate of 89 percent for the
   2011 class of graduating seniors exceeds the national match rate of 73
   percent for all applicants. Meharry is the only United Methodist-related
   historically black medical college.
   The majority of Meharry’s class of 89 fourth-year medical students were
   matched in the primary-care fields of internal medicine, pediatrics,
   obstetrics and gynecology, and family medicine. Sixty percent of Meharry
   fourth-year students matched into primary care specialties. In addition,
   several students matched into other such specialty programs as orthopedics,
   urology, emergency medicine, psychiatry and radiology.


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