by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 18, 2020 | News
By 2030, nearly two-thirds of the world’s poor will live in economies experiencing conflict, state fragility or both, according to a World Bank report published on Feb. 27. This is a dramatic shift from 2000, when most of the world’s poor lived in non-fragile...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 8, 2019 | News
An estimated 113 million people were food insecure and experienced hunger in 2018. That’s the finding of a joint report published by the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the U.N. World Food Programme on April 2. While...
by David Wheeler | Jan 22, 2019 | Opinion
One of the most significant causes of conflict – whether between individuals or among nations – is the conviction that reality revolves around ourselves: our perceptions, our needs and our desires. Ancient biblical narratives both reflect and oppose this orientation....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 22, 2019 | News
Human trafficking has reached “horrific dimensions” in areas of conflict, according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report published Jan. 7. The average number of trafficking victims per country has increased significantly in recent years, rising...
by Joe LaGuardia | Aug 31, 2017 | Opinion
Being Christ’s church is no easy task. As far back as the New Testament, churches have been dealing with weighty matters from Bible interpretation to theological wrangling so much that we should not be surprised when some churches fight and split. Scripture...