One billion ‘denied a childhood’ “When half the world’s children are growing up hungry and unhealthy, when schools have become targets and whole villages are being emptied by Aids, we’ve failed to deliver on the promise of childhood,” Ms Bellamy said, launching the annual report in London on Thursday.
These are the consequences of the “separate peace” the world has made in the war on poverty.
But it is even worse than that. We, the people of the world, have chosen to forsake Jesus’ call to nonviolent, radical love for our neighbors and especially our enemies and in doing so we have opened the door to enormous suffering. We have tried the “war to end all wars” approach to international relations for the past ten thousand years. When will we decide to try something different when it is so clear that this policy simply doesn’t work?
