But as you read these words, keep in mind a promise Jesus made:
"But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
On June 4 Italian leaders at the Rome summit have proposed a sort of "global food bank'" to tackle the world food crisis.
''We will ask the European Union to help set up an international mechanism to create strategic resources to cope with emergencies,'' said Italian Foreign Minister Franco He also said Italy supported United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's planned task force on the crisis, calling for ''global governance'' of food needs. Frattini defended U.N. food agencies located in Rome, including the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Program and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, against criticisms that they didn't see the crisis coming and were slow to act.
Frattini pledged that Italy would make the food crisis a priority when it takes over the chair of the industrial Group of Eight at the start of 2009.
The Rome summit ends after three days on Thursday with leaders expected to announce an action plan for dealing with the food crisis.
On Jun 3, 2008, Fifty 50 leaders from around the world gathered at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in Rome, to hear Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio,Bertine read a message from the Pope, which stressed that the world is more than capable of providing enough food for all.
Pope Benedict XVI wrote that, "hunger and malnutrition are unacceptable in a world which has, in fact, levels of production, resources and knowledge sufficient to put an end to such dramas and their consequences.” The solution, said the Pope is, “is to 'globalize,' not just economic and commercial interests, but also the call for solidarity, while respecting and taking advantage of the contribution of all components of society."
In BEIJING, Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, said recent manifestations of national food insecurity like export restrictions imposed by some grain-producing countries are the troublesome portents of an
"entirely new chapter in the book of food security. Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world. We are in the midst of the most severe food crisis in the world's history," Brown said. "This is not your mother's food shortage...but a chronically tight food situation, a serious and long-term problem.''
Politicians have been meeting in Rome to find global solutions to soaring food prices and civil unrest caused by food shortages, but in reality many countries are already acting unilaterally to secure supplies for the future.
Abdul,RIYADH, 1 May 2008 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdulyesterday called for a new global trade order to ensure food security and achieve sustained agricultural development.
U.S. Senators Barak Obama, Chuck Hagel and Maria Cantwel(D-WA) have introduced the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), which requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive policy to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief, and coordination with the international community, businesses and NGOs
Representatives Adam Smith (D-WA) and Spencer Bachus(R-AL) sponsored the House version of the bill (H.R. 1302), which passed the House in September.
The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) commits U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts.It requires the United States to spend $845 billion ($845,000,000,000.00) on welfare to third-world countries. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 on each man, woman and child in the United States. The foreign aid budget now stands at $300 billion; the Act would add the additional expenditure to the already huge amount allocated to assist the world.
In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Children.
