[UPDATE: Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander is blogging his week in New York here. Great way to get an inside view of what’s going on at this ‘week of action’]
World leaders meet tomorrow in New York to discuss progress on the Millenium Development Goals. The target for the goals, which include halving global poverty, is 2015. So far progress has been minimal, an ambitious set of promises that are likely to come to nothing without a major new push. Gordon Brown aims to give them the push they need with this summit.
Mark sends this prayer by the Bishop of London:
Heavenly Father,
whose Son Jesus Christ came to bring good news to the poor,
to heal the broken-hearted, and to set free those who are oppressed:
give grace to the leaders of all the nations,
that, being so hungry for justice for your poorest people,
and fired with passion for their raising up,
they may be renewed in their determination to fulfil the promises they have made to them;
that the chains of hunger, disease and inequality may be broken;
and that all humanity may know life in all its fullness;
through him who came that we might have the same, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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