{"id":390,"date":"2008-07-01T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/07\/01\/churches-unite-to-feed-the-poor\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T23:07:33","slug":"churches-unite-to-feed-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/07\/01\/churches-unite-to-feed-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches unite to &#8216;feed the poor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 12px\/15px Arial; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/food-crisis-2.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Food shortage\" height=\"158\" style=\"width: 217px; height: 158px\" title=\"Food shortage\" \/>Church bodies have affirmed their commitment to feeding the world&#8217;s hungry after world government&#8217;s agreed at the Rome food crisis summit last month that overcoming the current shortages would require a united effort.<br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/><br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/>The plea \u00e2\u20ac\u0153give us this day our daily bread\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poor is deeply understood by Christians and a message that world leaders at the food summit need to hear&#8221;, said Sushant Agrawal, director of the Church&#8217;s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) in India.<br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/><br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/>&#8220;The Lord&#8217;s Prayer highlights that having enough to eat is, and has always been, central to the Christian idea of a world shaped by justice and mercy,&#8221; Agrawal added, according to World Council of Churches (WCC). &#8220;If God&#8217;s will was done, no one would go hungry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/><br style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px\" \/>There are 854 million people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or one in every eight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that are short of food, and another 100 million people are expected to join their ranks with the current food crisis this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 12px\/15px Arial; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/au.christiantoday.com\/article\/church-bodies-seek-daily-bread-for-worlds-poor\/3932.htm\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church bodies have affirmed their commitment to feeding the world&#8217;s hungry after world government&#8217;s agreed at the Rome food crisis summit last month that overcoming the current shortages would require a united effort.The plea \u00e2\u20ac\u0153give us this day our daily bread\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poor is deeply understood by Christians and a message that world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}