In 2015 the United Nations (partly at the instigation of two women from Colombia, Paula Caballero and Patti Londoño) agreed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These 17 goals were intended to be reached by 2030 and include things like no poverty (Goal 1), quality education (Goal 4), gender equality (Goal 5) and climate…
“How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:23) A recent study by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) found that Canadians had the highest individual debt load of all people living in the G7 (the seven richest countries in the world). Obviously, this is…
Situated outside of Lilongwe, Malawi, is Dzaleka Refugee Camp. It currently hosts over 55,000 refugees from African countries such as Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in an area intended for only 10,000. Some of these refugees came long ago, spillage from previous wars as far back as the 1960s. They came as…
Following the end of the Great War just over a century ago, an effort was made to end the ancient cycle of warfare by anchoring international order in a new multilateral League of Nations. US President Woodrow Wilson, a devout Presbyterian Christian, wanted to locate its headquarters in Calvin’s Geneva in historically neutral Switzerland, but…
Areas in four countries – Yemen, South Sudan, Burkina Faso and Nigeria – are considered to be in the grip of famine by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) right now. WFP is concerned for an additional 34 million people who are fast approaching famine, precipitated in part by COVID-19. WFP has responded to the…
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