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Lent Appeal 2023
We encourage you to have a look at/bookmark
ourworldindata.org
It is an amazing site for the latest statistics on world poverty (in fact world everything).
There are some fantastic essays and articles
October 2022
The World Food Programme today spotlights the Horn of Africa’s food crisis in a report that warns of dire consequences for 19 countries where food insecurity is of the highest concern.
According to the report, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen remain at the ‘highest alert’ as hotspots, and account for almost a million people facing catastrophic levels of hunger (IPC Phase 5 ‘Catastrophe’) with starvation and death a daily reality and where extreme levels of mortality and malnutrition may unfold without immediate action.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, the Sahel, the Sudan and Syria remain ‘of very high concern’ with deteriorating conditions – as in the June edition of the quarterly report – but the alert is extended to the Central African Republic and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Guatemala, Honduras and Malawi have been added to the list of countries, joining Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Madagascar that remain hunger hotspots.
Violent conflict remains the primary driver of acute hunger with analysis indicating a continuation of this trend in 2022, with particular concern for Ethiopia, where an intensification of conflict and inter-ethnic violence in several regions is expected to further escalate, driving up humanitarian needs.
This year the Christ Church Lent appeal was in support of the Christian Aid
GLOBAL HUNGER APPEAL
WE RAISED £870
This means drought-resistant seeds can be provided for 580 farmers.
Thank you for your donations.
Join us in prayer
When Famine stalks the land, nothing grows.
Plants cannot, people cannot, ideas and dreams cannot –
everything withers and dies.
It is a violent aberration of your will for the world
and it is multiplied now
by conflict, climate change and COVID.
God of the flourishing field, there is enough to feed us all.
Call us to that sacred sharing –
neighbour to global neighbour -
Your gifts of food, water,
a chance to live the life so delicately crafted
by your divine spirit.
We will not turn away but turn towards each other
with generosity and a justice-driven compassion
that searches for solutions.
Famine stalks the land, so may our outrage grow,
may our determination steel itself,
may our solidarity spur us into action.
God of the flourishing field,
help us feed each other.
Amen.
GLOBAL HUNGER APPEAL
WE RAISED £870
This means drought-resistant seeds can be provided for 580 farmers.
Thank you for your donations.
Join us in prayer
When Famine stalks the land, nothing grows.
Plants cannot, people cannot, ideas and dreams cannot –
everything withers and dies.
It is a violent aberration of your will for the world
and it is multiplied now
by conflict, climate change and COVID.
God of the flourishing field, there is enough to feed us all.
Call us to that sacred sharing –
neighbour to global neighbour -
Your gifts of food, water,
a chance to live the life so delicately crafted
by your divine spirit.
We will not turn away but turn towards each other
with generosity and a justice-driven compassion
that searches for solutions.
Famine stalks the land, so may our outrage grow,
may our determination steel itself,
may our solidarity spur us into action.
God of the flourishing field,
help us feed each other.
Amen.
line Drawing from Rev John King see https://timstking.wixsite.com/website
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