Arms or food?
Ekklesia reports the launch of the Blow the Whistle campaign – an attempt to get Governments to check progress now that we’re half way to the target date for the Millennium Development Goals to halve world poverty by 2015. But some of the British MPs (from the organisation Christians in Parliament) got a shock when reminded of the UK Government’s recent decision to buy a new set of nuclear weapons:
“The billions of pounds spent on arms could be spent alleviating world poverty” World Vision chief executive Charles Badenoch said. “Then we would not only have a more just world, but a more secure world.”
pax et bonum
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