“Never tire of doing what is right,” urges Paul in 2 Thessalonians, but how can we not tire of battling the enormous, amorphous, problem of global poverty?
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I am delighted that this edition of MinistryMatters is devoted to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and I want to thank all who have contributed articles. I trust they will provoke thought and action, locally and globally.
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At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, all 189 member states committed themselves to improving the lives of the world’s most impoverished people before 2015. It was a compact between rich and poor countries: wealthy countries, including Canada, promised to deliver more, and more effective, aid, faster and deeper debt relief, and fairer trade rules.
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Last year I was privileged to participate in two separate events of the global Anglican Communion. Although they were quite different, both events gave me insight into what is distinctive about how Anglicans understand “mission” and how the much-championed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) fit into that understanding.
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The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has been engaged in community development work for most of its 50-year history. It has, therefore, lived and breathed the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) long before the United Nations created them in 2000.
read moreMany books will help you find this will to act with practical suggestions, stories of hope, and data analysis. But we need spiritual resources, too. As congregational sales representative for Anglican Book Centre and Augsburg Fortress, I offer you a few of the latter.
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