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TechnoratiIn the world today, about 1 billion, or 1 out of 6 people, are considered chronically hungry. About 24,000 people die everyday from hunger related causes. And 2 billion people live on $2 or less a day.
Ray Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, noted during the media call that the past year has been very hard for the world’s poor countries, which faced a food crisis topped by a fuel crisis, financial crisis, global economic crisis, and likely in the near future an employment crisis.
Dave Donaldson, founder and president of the Christian humanitarian group Convoy of Hope, commented, "Jesus called upon us to care for the least of these. Many of our evangelical churches have cared the least and now there is a sea change.
“I'm seeing compassionate conservatives like myself that are looking to rebrand and expand the pro-life image to protect not only the child in the womb but the child fighting to survive in the slums.”
The World Bank estimates that 52 million more people have already fallen into poverty because of the global economic crisis. In the United States, the current economic recession threatens to push 10 million Americans into poverty.
The U.S. House is currently debating the President’s budget, which on Thursday is expected to be voted on.
“What happens to poor people is to us a matter of faith,” Sojourners’ Wallis said. “This is the moral authority of the faith community on the line here and we are getting behind to get poor people back on the agenda.”
At the end of April, Sojourners and partners will hold a large-scale event as part of their Mobilization to End Poverty initiative. On April 26-29, more than 1,000 faith leaders and activists will convene in Washington, D.C., to learn and share the vision of how to reduce poverty by half within 10 years both domestically and globally. President Obama has been invited to give a major address on poverty at the event, but he has not confirmed his decision as of yet.
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