[Dialogue] Fwd: UMNS Daily Digest - December 18, 2009(Keywords: Climate change, Danish Methodists, Rev. Tracey Jones, Uganda)

[George Holcombe]

Tracy Jones, an old friend of the movement died, see story below.

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> Date: December 18, 2009 5:26:56 PM CST
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> Subject: UMNS Daily Digest - December 18, 2009(Keywords: Climate  
> change, Danish Methodists, Rev. Tracey Jones, Uganda)
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> Friday, December 18, 2009
>   Climate inaction a danger, United Methodists say
>   Danish Methodists help bring faithful to summit
>   Jones, Christian mission leader, dies at 92
>   United Methodist agency urges Uganda not to adopt anti-gay law
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> Climate inaction a danger, United Methodists say
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> NEW YORK (UMNS)–Someday soon, Tupou Kelemeni fears, her ancestral  
> home could be washed away. Pacific island nations are among the  
> countries under immediate threat from global warming and Kelemeni, a  
> United Methodist from Hawaii and native of Tonga, is concerned about  
> all of them. As a member of the United Methodist Women’s delegation  
> to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, she had a  
> chance to interview young people from the Solomon Islands and the  
> Maldives Islands, in the Indian Ocean, about the situation.
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> Danish Methodists help bring faithful to summit
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> NEW YORK (UMNS)–A Danish United Methodist pastor helpedensure that  
> religious representatives from around the world had a significant  
> presence at the Copenhagen summit. The Rev. Ole Birch, a United  
> Methodist district superintendent and pastor of Jerusalem Church  
> there, is coordinator of a working group on climate issues for the  
> National Council of Churches in Denmark. Their organizing efforts  
> around the summit were part of a larger strategy to promote  
> “gronkirke” – a green church movement. His working group coordinated  
> with DanChurchAid, a faith-based, ecumenical organization, to  
> promote the participation of faith groups at the summit.
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> Jones, Christian mission leader, dies at 92
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> NEW YORK (UMNS)–The Rev. Tracey K. Jones Jr., a leader in Christian  
> missions, died in Sarasota, Fla., on Dec. 16 at the age of 92. Among  
> the last missionaries to enter China before that become impossible  
> in the 1940s, he was head of the United Methodist Board of Global  
> Ministries from 1968 to 1980, and author of the most widely used  
> mission study book in the history of the denomination, “Our Mission  
> Today: The Beginning of a New Age,” published by the mission board.  
> Jones helped to craft the development of The United Methodist  
> Church, formed in 1968 by the union of The Methodist and Evangelical  
> United Brethren churches, and to combine the mission work of the two  
> denominations.
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> United Methodist agency urges Uganda not to adopt anti-gay law
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> NEW YORK (UMNS)–Anti-homosexual legislation pending in the East  
> African country of Uganda is "draconian" and should not be enacted,  
> according to Bishop Joel N. Martinez, head of The United Methodist  
> Board of Global Ministries. Martinez added his voice to a chorus of  
> human rights and religious appeals that Uganda not enact a measure  
> that would send homosexuals to jail for life and even impose the  
> death penalty. The full statement can be found here.
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