This week, the House Appropriations Committee passed the FY20 funding bill for the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) which includes the Global Health Account.
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The presence of major life-taking famines has diminished significantly and abruptly as compared to earlier eras. This is not in anyway to underplay the very real risk facing the roughly 80 million people currently living in a state of crisis-level food insecurity and therefore requiring urgent action. Nevertheless, the parts of the world that continue to be at risk of famine represent a much more limited geographic area than in previous eras, and those famines that have occurred recently have typically been far less deadly.
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With Yemen now in its fifth year of conflict between pro-Government forces and Houthi rebels, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for “unhindered access” to the most desperate areas in the frontline regions “to prevent the food security situation deteriorating”.
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Statement on the Global Fund By: Elton John, Pastor Rick Warren, Charlize Theron, Senator Bill Frist and Senator Tom Daschle
Dear Senator Graham, Senator Leahy, Chairwoman Lowey and Ranking Member Rogers,
With you as our champions, the world has made great strides in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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One in every nine people in the world go hungry every day. That amounts to 821 million people. But we produce enough food to feed all 7.5 billion people on Earth today.
So what gives?
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Rachel Held Evans, a best-selling Christian author who was unafraid to wade into fierce theological battles over issues such as the role of women, science, LGBT issues and politics on her blog and social media, died Saturday, after spending weeks in the hospital for an infection. She was 37.
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Even as groups that work to end hunger celebrate incredible achievements, it is important not to lose sight of how far we still have to go. In 2018, we are still not on track to eradicate hunger in our lifetime, even though all 191 U.N. member states vowed in 2000 to end hunger by 2015.
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Global hunger is one of the greatest challenges humanity faces. Sometimes, when we attempt to respond to hunger, we miss the opportunity to address the causes of hunger.
The United Nation’s World Food Programme names six main causes for the world hunger crisis. What are they and what might the Biblical response to each look like for us?
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Worldwide, the number of hungry people has dropped significantly over the past two decades, but 795 million people continue to struggle with hunger every day.
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Americans seem to be becoming more distrustful of religion. In fact, Gallup has watched the public’s trust in clergy decline for years, with just 42 percent of Americans last year saying the clergy had “very high” or “high” honesty and ethical standards — the lowest rating they’ve received since Gallup first asked that question in 1977.
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Since the turn of the century, the global fight against malaria has been marked by a steady series of advances resulting in millions of cases averted and millions of lives saved. The effort represents one of public health’s greatest triumphs: mortality caused by the disease plummeted by nearly 60%.
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From India to Indiana, Kenya to Kentucky, mothers and children everywhere need good nutrition and nurturing care in the first 1,000 days in order to thrive.
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Int’l (MNN) – Should Christianity impact law and public policy? Many in the West hold that faith and politics should never mix. Religion is for private times and shouldn’t alter public government or policies.
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Could we see the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime?
Just two hundred years ago, almost the entire world’s population lived in extreme poverty. Today, less than 10 percent do. (In the past forty years alone, the percent of people living in extreme poverty has dropped by over 30 percentage points.)
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As we just celebrated National Nutrition Awareness Month in March, and with the first signs of spring produce throughout the commonwealth, we are reminded that 1 out of every 3 people is malnourished worldwide.
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As a pastor in Oklahoma City, I have a primary job to preach and teach the Gospel message, the good news that Jesus Christ saves sinners.
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Hope is infectious, even healing. But in a world that’s often dark, what is there to be hopeful for? Here are 19 reasons to have hope in 2019 — and how to pray them into reality.
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“If breastfeeding did not already exist, someone who invented it today would deserve a dual Nobel Prize in medicine and economics.” - World Bank Vice President of Human Development, Keith Hansen
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A passion for global health took a United Methodist pastor from South Carolina to the nation’s capitol recently, where she joined other faith leaders as they spoke to congressional representatives about funding concerns.
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CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 18, 2019--This World Water Day, Procter & Gamble (P&G) is celebrating the achievement of its 2020 goal of delivering 15 billion liters of clean drinking water through its non-profit Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program.
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