UMNS Daily Digest - June 15, 2011 (Sierra Leone, women’s ministry, pets, hospice, criminal justice,
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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 Wednesday, June 15, 2011 [5]Network empowers young African women [6]UMTV: Volunteers Adopt Hospice Pets [7]Faith leaders seek criminal-justice reform [8]NCC’s ‘Circle of Names’ honors Dauway [9] UMTV: Women’s Spirituality Club» [10] UMTV: Hospice Care with Pets» [11] UMTV: Creative and Color-Blind Church» [12] Read Additional UMNS Stories» [13]Find us on Facebook [14]Twitter Contact Us E-mail (615) 742-5470 “It is a ground for building the young woman’s capacity into womanhood. We are groomed to become responsible women or adults. Our spiritual growth is also enhanced.” — Sylvanet Tawa on the Young Women’s Network in Sierra Leone. Network empowers young African women FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (UMNS) — Young women of the Sierra Leone Annual (regional) Conference —19 years after forming the Young Women’s Network — are breaking through the traditional restrictions that kept them from active participation in the women’s organization. [15]Read full story and post a comment» UMTV: Volunteers Adopt Hospice Pets TULSA, Okla. (UMTV) — When pet owners must go into hospice care, they may worry a great deal about the fate of their pets. A program called Pet Peace of Mind helps find foster families for these animals — and helps ease the transition for the patient and the pet. [16]Watch video and post a comment» Faith leaders seek criminal-justice reform WASHINGTON (UMNS) — More than 20 faith leaders from across the United States will come to the U.S. Capitol on June 16 to advocate for passage of the “National Criminal Justice Commission Act.” The United Methodist Board of Church and Society and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, on behalf of the Faith in Action Working Group of the Justice Roundtable, are coordinating the “fly-in.” The event is an effort to sway support to the bill targeted at fixing the nation’s criminal-justice system. [17]Read full story» NCC’s ‘Circle of Names’ honors Dauway NEW YORK (UMNS) — Lois McCullough Dauway, a retired church executive who worked for the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Women and the National Council of Churches, was among the three women honored June 14 at a “Circles of Names” gathering. 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