Shalom Center for Justice and Peace - News
Chris Singer
This is a brief e-mail to let you know about some peace and justice events coming up. Be sure to visit our website (www.shalomlansing.org) for more information and updates.
Please feel free to circulate the news/events listed here to your church community.
* June 7th is Peace With Justice Sunday:
Peace with Justice Sunday, one of the six United Methodist churchwide Special Sundays, witnesses to God's demand for a faithful, just, disarmed and secure world.
Established by the 1988 General Conference, the denomination’s highest policy-making body, Peace with Justice Sunday supports programs that advocate peace and justice at home and around the world. It will be observed on June 7 this year.
Because half of the Special Sunday offerings collected by an
annual conference is retained to fund local peace with justice
programs, differences can be made locally. In addition, half of the
offering is remitted to the General Board of Church & Society to
help fund U.S. and global work in social action, public-policy
education and advocacy. Learn more here.
Michigan Says No to Torture: Press Conference at State Capitol. Thursday, June 11, 9:30 a.m., Michigan Capitol East Steps. In
front of a 24 foot banner proclaiming "End Torture Forever," Michigan
legal, religious, and peace groups are coming together to mark Torture
Awareness Month. Together they will call for an investigation into U.S.
sponsored torture and strong anti-torture legislation.
* More:
- More than five million people have died and armed groups perpetuating the violence generate an estimated $144 million each year by trading in four main minerals: gold, tin, tantalum (coltan) and tungsten. Take Action at www.raisehopeforcongo.org
- The 2009-2012 Social Principles Booklet is now available through Cokesbury! To order copies: http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=793692
Peace & Blessings,
The Shalom Center for Justice & Peace
But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.
- Matthew 13:16-17
---"Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan."
~ Isaiah 1:17
"Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, then watching the evidence change"
~ Jim Wallis
Pat Grauer
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Pat Grauer
Shalom Center for Justice and Peace
http://shalomlansing.org