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Article: United Church petition calls on government to do more about HIV/AIDS.(Canadian news)(Brief Article)
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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More than 30,000 signatures were tabled in the House of Commons on March 9 calling on the Canadian government to do more to address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The petition was circulated by the United Church of Canada and was signed by members, adherents and friends of Canada's largest Protestant denomination.
The petition, known as the Signatures of Hope, began circulating last fall in conjunction with the United Church's two-year advocacy and fundraising initiative called the Beads of Hope Campaign. That campaign was launched in December 2002 in an effort to raise awareness of the growing crisis of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The denomination has received close ...