2 Reasons That Living Among Poor Makes a Difference

2 Reasons That Living Among Poor Makes a Difference

I recently watched a BBC Panorama documentary on the impact of poverty on life expectancy called “Get Rich or Die Young.” The program reported from Teeside, United Kingdom, which has the country’s worst health inequality: The life expectancy difference between...

British Churches: Benefit Cuts Will Harm Poor Families

Major churches in the United Kingdom are warning that the government’s Welfare Reform and Work Bill marks a dangerous shift away from a core principle of the welfare state and will make poor people even poorer. A YouGov survey commissioned by the churches has...

Refugees in French Camp Endure ‘Awful Conditions’

To leave people in such an inhuman place is a scandal, whatever one’s views on immigration. That was the response of Sam King, pastor of Calne Baptist Church in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, who recently saw the shocking conditions at the Calais refugee camp on the...