Church leaders seek 'decisive action' by G-8 to end world poverty

Published: 2005-06-30

LONDON (CNS) -- Church leaders from the United States, Britain and Africa have called on the world's richest nations to take "decisive action" to end global poverty. Delegates attending the Transatlantic Forum on Global Poverty at Lambeth Palace, London, issued a joint declaration June 29 in which they said that "God judges nations by what they do to the poorest." The representatives of Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and evangelical churches said they met ahead of the Group of Eight summit that will run July 6-8 in Gleneagles, Scotland, to urge a stronger commitment to end extreme poverty. The summit brings together leaders of eight industrialized nations, the United States, Britain, Japan, Canada, Russia, Germany, Italy and France. "For the first time in history, humanity possesses the information, knowledge, technology and resources to bring the worst of global poverty virtually to an end," they said in a statement.

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