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Evangelicals working to break stereotypes - The Clarion-Ledger
Evangelicals have been pushing President Bush, an evangelical himself, to lead the charge on reducing foreign debt owed by Third World nations and to fight poverty and AIDS in Africa.
The debt-relief effort has been driven by the Rev. Rick Warren, author of the enormously popular book, The Purpose-Driven [...]

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BBC NEWS | Health | Women’s health fuelling poverty
For every woman who dies, roughly 20 more suffer serious injury or disability - between 8 million and 20 million a year.
Experts agree that the majority of maternal deaths are preventable through family planning to reduce unintended pregnancies, skilled attendance at all deliveries and timely emergency [...]

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Obama: White House blind to poverty in U.S.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday night again criticized the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and urged a black policymaking conference to make sure the poor are not left behind again.
“The incompetence was colorblind,” said Obama (D-Ill.). “What wasn’t colorblind was the indifference. Human efforts will [...]

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Bush breaks HIV funding promise
The Replenishment Meeting was widely billed as the first significant test of the promises made by world leaders at the recent G8 meeting, during worldwide MakePovertyHistory protests.
The 3.7bn US dollars pledged by donors will be just enough to sustain current programmes. However there is no funding for new prevention, treatment or [...]

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Nearly 1,600 children under the age of six have died in India’s Maharashtra state, many from malnutrition, in the past four months, officials say.
Let’s see: that’s approximately 400 children a month, 13 children a day, or 1 child every two hours, in just one state of one country battling poverty.
It’s time I gave somebody a [...]

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