Kindness To Animals–AKM News September 2010

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Kindness To Animals–AKM News September 2010

This is the September News and Update From Rosemarie Tingle, who single handed founded Animal Kinship Ministry 2 years ago, and does such great saving work through this organization for Animals!

“I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it”

—Abraham Lincoln

Hi all,

1. September 2010 marks the second Anniversary

of our Animal Kinship Ministry here at the Center for Spiritual Living, Capistrano Valley!! It has been a busy two years!!!I invite you to read the attached article which was the inspiration for our ministry. It appeared in the Best Friends magazine section, Animals and Religion, page 18 titled, “The Kindness Revival, Why Don’t Churches Preach Compassion for Animals”, by then-CEO, Paul Berry.  At the end of the article you will find  suggestions  on how you can promote kindness to animals in your church. I was delighted to actually meet Mr. Berry this year at the annual Animals and Religion conference held at Chapman University in Orange, California.

2. The Humane Society of the United States also has an Animals and Religion program. If you click on the website below, it will take you to the HSUS video titled “Eating Mercifully” from the Christian perspective. Sit back with a cup of coffee and be inspired.

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/multimedia/?fr_story=a5116a493ce27291fbe9a71138adeea55e567f79

3. Ninety-five is the figure that is often cited as the number of animals who are saved each year by one person’s vegan diet.

Ninety-Five: Meeting America's Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs

This is Justice on the cover. He was headed for slaughter when he escaped from a truck and ran. A wildlife officer subbdued him with a shot from a transquilzer gun, serendipitously saving him: The new drugs in Justice’s system made him unfit for human consumption.
Justice arrived at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary as a scared steer who, according to his caretaker, had “banged himself up terribly”on the trailer ride heading to the slaughter house, breaking his left horn. But Sherman, another  steer at the sanctuary, saw Justice’s agitated state and started licking him through the fence to calm him down. That act of kindness appears to have made an impression on Justice, who’s now made it his mission to ease the fears of all the scared newcomers. He’ll stand by them–all night if he has to , as in the case of a terrified sheep name Rowdy who stopped crying after his new friend came to his side.
“And he does it consistently; he does it across species,” says  Ninety Five co-editor Diane Leigh, who visited Justice and wrote the chapter devoted to him in the book. “Everyone who goes to that sanctuary talks about Justice. He has such an aura around him, in the same way if you met a really profound person, you would get that same kind of thing. His lesson of just utter kindness and wanting to relieve other creature’s suffering and fear–it was very moving.”
Namaste,
Rose Tingle
Animal Kinship Ministry – “Expanding the Circle of Compassion to include all sentient beings”

Kindness Revival in Churches article.pdf Kindness Revival in Churches article.pdf
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