Bono and Geldof Urge G8 Leaders to Keep Promises
Irish rock star Bono will sing at an anti-poverty concert this week, calling on G8 leaders for a reaffirmation of the 2005 commitment.
by Kevin Donovan
Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 9:58 (BST)
Irish rock star Bono will sing at an anti-poverty concert this week, calling on G8 leaders for a reaffirmation of the 2005 commitment.
Bono fears the G8 nations offer too little help or may wriggle out of existing promises.
The "Raise Your Voice Against Poverty" concert will be held 7 June in Rostock, near Heiligendamm.
In addition, another celebrity campaigner Bob Geldof is urging G8 leaders to hold onto pledges they have made at the Gleneagles summit chaired by Tony Blair almost two years ago.
"There is a great crisis of credibility," says Geldof, "If I sign a contract in my business life and don't fulfil it, I would be sued. I could go to jail. Do these leaders live outside the norms of human behaviour?" he asked.
Heads of State and government of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, US, Canada, Japan, and Russia are currently attending the G8 summit in Germany, which takes place June 6 to 8.
Last Saturday, 10,000 people joined 'The World Can't Wait' rally at the River Thames in London, calling on G8 leaders to take decisive action against poverty and climate catastrophe.
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Added: Thursday, June 7, 2007, 4:10 (BST)
Lets get real. Compare North Korea to South Korea, old East Germany to West Germany, formerly Christian Ethiopia under Haile Selassie to present day Ethiopia and you can see the DRAMATIC differences in poverty levels due to the level of faith a country has in the SON OF GOD.
When the prophet Abel was murdered for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ,i.e. acceptable to GOD as righteous through faith in a Lamb offering, part of the curse for this christophbic act was that in Gen 4:12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you.
As faith in JESUS goes up the wealth of the world goes up and so as faith in HIM goes down so does the wealth of the world.
Robert , Clearwater, Fl 33763
