Have you ever heard of the Poverty and Justice Bible?
I really like it. I got it through World Vision and it was a great "purchase."
It has a section that discusses what the Bible says on certain things, like job wages, women and war.
The one on war has always got to me and I wanted to share a quote that is in that section. It's a line from President Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" speech.
I was thinking about this quote and about the crisis in the Horn of Africa. The WFP was reporting that Congress is looking to cut aid by 75% for food in areas of hunger. I know that many people have also read that the reason Somalia's famine is so bad is not just (or even mainly) because of lack of rain, but because of conflict, of militants who refuse to not only get help for their people, but who refuse to even admit that their people are hungry.
So what can we do? Well, I'm not sure. Other than prayer, I'm not sure. But we have hope - hope that God will save us, hope that hearts will turn and that someone, on either side of the world understands the implications of war. We can stand with the poor and whisper to those in power the needs of the world and hope that they hear.
If you would like to help those effected by war:
Collateral Repair Project - supporting Iraqi Refugees
SOA Watch - a group working to close the School of Americas that trains South Americans and is often tied to human rights abuses.
If you would like to help those devastated by famine:
World Vision
World Food Program
I really like it. I got it through World Vision and it was a great "purchase."
It has a section that discusses what the Bible says on certain things, like job wages, women and war.
The one on war has always got to me and I wanted to share a quote that is in that section. It's a line from President Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" speech.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I was thinking about this quote and about the crisis in the Horn of Africa. The WFP was reporting that Congress is looking to cut aid by 75% for food in areas of hunger. I know that many people have also read that the reason Somalia's famine is so bad is not just (or even mainly) because of lack of rain, but because of conflict, of militants who refuse to not only get help for their people, but who refuse to even admit that their people are hungry.
So what can we do? Well, I'm not sure. Other than prayer, I'm not sure. But we have hope - hope that God will save us, hope that hearts will turn and that someone, on either side of the world understands the implications of war. We can stand with the poor and whisper to those in power the needs of the world and hope that they hear.
If you would like to help those effected by war:
Collateral Repair Project - supporting Iraqi Refugees
SOA Watch - a group working to close the School of Americas that trains South Americans and is often tied to human rights abuses.
If you would like to help those devastated by famine:
World Vision
World Food Program
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