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TITLE:	Nine programs named to receive Peace With Justice Offering
grants

April 1, 1998	Contact: 	Joretta Purdue (202)546-8722, Washington
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WASHINGTON (UMNS) -- Nine Peace With Justice program grants totaling
$21,000 have been awarded for ministries ranging from human rights
monitoring in Liberia to helping rehabilitate prostitutes in Alaska.

The grants use funds donated by United Methodists to the special Sunday
offering for Peace With Justice, collected annually in June. The program
is operated by the United Methodist Board of Church and Society.

Grant recipients are:
*	Liberia Annual Conference in West Africa, $5,000, to continue
operation of its human rights monitor in the aftermath of years of civil
war.
*	Mozambique Annual Conference, $5,000, for peace-building and
conflict resolution training events.
*	Antonio Valdivieso Ecumenical Center in Nicaragua, $3,000, to
support the printing and distribution of a booklet encouraging church
members to act to stop violence against women and children.

The remaining six grants were given to projects in the United States.
*	El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajodores Agricolas in Glassboro,
N.J., $2,000, to assist this migrant farmworker organization in its
struggle for better working and living conditions.
*	United Methodist Men of the Deland (Fla.) District, $500, to
help fund its "InterAct with the Homeless" project, which will use a
World Wide Web site to connect churches and social service agencies in
serving homeless people.
*	Just Neighbors Ministry at Culmore United Methodist Church in
Falls Church, Va., $1,500, to provide legal service and health education
and services to the immigrant community. This program is also a mission
of the Arlington (Va.) District.
*	Mary Magdalene Home Alaska Inc., $1,000, for rehabilitative
support and recovery help to women who are trying to leave prostitution.
The project is sponsored in part by the Alaska Missionary Conference.
*	The Institute for Peace and Justice in St. Louis, $1,500, to
provide Families Against Violence Advocacy Network training to United
Methodist churches.
*	Rising Hope United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Va., $1,500,
to help socially and economically disenfranchised members become more
self-sufficient.
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