Faith leaders and agencies in bid to tackle world poverty
Faith leaders, charity workers and councillors gathered in the city to urge the Government to tackle hunger and poverty.
Assistant city mayor Manjula Sood joined the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, and representatives from Oxfam, Save the Children and Christian Aid at the cathedral this week to help launch Enough Food for Everyone – a campaign by Christian Aid.
The national campaign is asking the Prime Minister to tackle four problems to ensure there is enough food for everyone – stop poor farmers being forced off their land and use the available agricultural land to grow food for people, make governments keep their promises on aid, close loopholes to stop big companies dodging tax in poor countries and force governments and investors to be honest and open about the deals they make in the poorest countries.
Councillor Sood said: "The campaign will highlight the plight of many who still struggle to have one decent meal a day."
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The bishop said: "I am delighted the churches and faith communities are coming together to support this campaign, which draws attention internationally to one of the great issues of justice in our day."
3 Comments
by prog_rock_fan
Thursday, January 24 2013, 5:09PM
“Hmm...
In 1908 the 5th Church of England Lambeth Conference said:
"The Conference records with alarm the growing practice of the artificial restriction of the family and earnestly calls upon all Christian people to discountenance the use of all artificial means of restriction as demoralising to character and hostile to national welfare."
In 1920 the 6th Conference codified this language to specifically target birth control:
"We utter an emphatic warning against the use of unnatural means for the avoidance of conception, together with the grave dangers — physical, moral and religious — thereby incurred, and against the evils with which the extension of such use threatens the race."
However, by the 7th Conference (1930), attitudes were modernising:
"Where there is a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, complete abstinence is the primary and obvious method... [but] the Conference agrees that other methods may be used, provided that this is done in the light of Christian principles."
No specific reference to birth control — but the purport is clear.
The 9th Conference (1958) furthered this modernisation by declaring that the number of children in each family can be decided by parents (how generous!) "in such ways as are acceptable to husband and wife". So: marriage only.
The 10th Conference (1968) finally and definitively broke with the Catholic Church on contraception:
"The Conference finds itself unable to agree with the Pope's conclusion that all methods of conception control other than abstinence from sexual intercourse... are contrary to the 'order established by God'."
Today the Church's website says unequivocally what the Conferences could not quite bring themselves to say in unambiguous language: that "contraception is not regarded as a sin or going against God's purpose".
So: I was wrong.
I withdraw that portion of my comment, with apologies.
@democrat: Thank you for the correction.”
by democrat
Thursday, January 24 2013, 3:25PM
“prog_rock_fan
The Rev is C of E not Catholic so condoms are cool”
by prog_rock_fan
Thursday, January 24 2013, 2:26PM
“Perhaps the Bishop of Leicester would like to set an example by calling on his Church to divest, oh, 1% of its gargantuan worldwide assets to feed the hungry...?
Or is he perhaps a bit too enamored of the ego-flattering gold-weave cloth he gets to wear while celebrating his "Christian" values?
Tell us, Bishop: Where in the Gospels does God tell us that Jesus wrapped Himself in gold? Chapter and verse, please.
@The Bishop of Leicester: "I am delighted the churches and faith communities are coming together to support this campaign"
I'd be even more delighted if the Bishop's Stone-Age Church stopped opposing condom use. Their Neanderthal opposition is a leading cause of Third World poverty.
It's not your faith that bothers me, Bishop; it's the hypocrisy.”