Archbishop of Canterbury encourgages cooperation on MDGs

Lambeth Palace:

On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Millennium Development Goals in New York, the Archbishop of Canterbury has underlined the commitment of the Anglican Church to continue to work for the eradication of poverty.

In a video message the Archbishop has backed calls for a renewal of the pledges made by the international community in 2000, and spoke of the need for the Anglican Church to work in harmony with governments and NGOs around the world in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

View the archbishop's video message (transcript here (scroll)):

See our coverage of tomorrow's UN meeting.

We remain dumbfounded why some in our church who claim an affinity with Anglicans in Africa persist in mocking the MDG's.

Posted by JB Chilton on September 24, 2008 9:55 AM | |
Comments (3)

Thanks for this story... by other sources, all he did was support Marx... (http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/09/karl-marx-right.html)

Posted by Huw Richardson [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 24, 2008 5:40 PM

No, Huw, in his remarks on MDGs he does not mention Marx.

The link you give covers two different statements. The on one on MDGs to which this post links, and another statement -- to appear Friday in the Spectator -- in which the ABC writes about today's economy where he brings up Marx.

Quoting from your link: The Archbishop of Canterbury has today delivered a video message on the Millennium Development Goals....Dr Williams has also written a piece for The Spectator on the credit crisis, in which he warns how, in our present attitude to money, we run the risk of idolatry. He speaks up for the anti-capitalist theories of Karl Marx.

And if you follow the link Gledhill gives,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4819605.ece
she writes, there,

In an article in Friday's Spectator, Dr Williams compares today's debtors and financiers to the feckless young clerics and landowners described in the novels of Anthony Trollope.

Posted by John B. Chilton [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 24, 2008 6:54 PM

As I said, thank you!

Ruth has a habit of reporting multiple stories together as if they are all connected. It may be a case of my USAmerican attention span, but I find that process mind-boggling.

So I thank you, this time, for sorting out her writing for my American mind!

Posted by Huw Richardson [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 25, 2008 6:22 PM

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