The Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. is calling for Congress to swiftly authorize the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to release Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to help struggling countries combat the coronavirus.
An international grouping of churches and Christian organizations says that if one sixth of the world’s population is hungry when there is sufficient food to feed the world, then action to address the problem’s root causes is needed.
The Geneva-based Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, which campaigns for food justice, said in a statement on Sept. 14 that new figures on world hunger highlight that the food crisis is still acute for one-sixth of the world’s population.
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program had on the same day announced that 925 million people …