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Christian Churches Together
April 15, 2015
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Christian Leaders Issue Statement in Support of Iran's Framework Agreement
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Faith Communities, World Bank find extreme poverty a common foe
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The World Bank and global faith leaders are joining together to end extreme poverty around the world by 2030.
The effort brings together the influential faith community with a major U.S.-based institution that has committed billions of dollars to development work and can leverage billions more from private sector sources to continue a 25-year trend of declining poverty in the world's poorest nations.
"The most important thing is that faith leaders and now the World Bank Group share a common goal," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said during a teleconference April 9 announcing the partnership.
As the alliance was announced, the faith leaders released a statement outlining their commitment to ending extreme poverty within 15 years, calling such action a "moral and spiritual imperative."
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Pope calls for hope, reconciliation as Armenia commemorates massacres
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the run-up to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Pope Francis decried humanity's ability to systematically exterminate its own brothers and sisters.
He asked that God's mercy "help all of us, in the love for the truth and justice, to heal every wound and expedite concrete gestures of reconciliation and peace among nations that still are unable to come to a reasonable consensus on interpreting such sad events."
The pope's remarks came during a meeting at the Vatican April 9 with a group of bishops from the Armenian Catholic synod. The bishops were in Rome, together with numerous priests, religious and lay faithful, to take part in a liturgy April 12 that was to be concelebrated by Pope Francis and Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni.Read full article HERE
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 Resource on Changing Landscape of the Church
Our Global Families
by Todd M. Johnson & Cindy Wu
"Todd Johnson and Cindy Wu have usefully underscored the great fact of Christianity's dramatic recent spread around the world. But they have also gone further with sage writing about what should be done with this fact. Their insights, cautions, wise words, careful theology, and practical advice make for a book that deserves careful attention from a wide readership." --Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame
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