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| Aid to the Church in Need has distributed 40 million Child's Bibles within 25 years, an average of 1.6 million a year. |
| Scottish Catholic Observer - Friday August 15 2003 |
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| Between 1960 and 1995, the disparity between the 20 richest and the 20 poorest nations more than doubled from 18 to 1 to 37 to 1. But the inequalities also rose within most countries, the gap between those at the top and the bottom of the economic pyramid is even more pronounced. For example, in the United States the income of the top 400 tax payers virtually quadrupled grom 1992 to 2000, from $46.8 million a year to an astonishing $174 million; an increase 15 times that of 90% of Americans. |
| Just Right - Issue 8 |
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| It was recently estimated that over 3 million teenagers catch an STI every year, yet these young people are often ignorant of the way they are spread, the symptoms and how they can be cured. |
| Focus - Jun-Aug 2003 |
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| Evidence published by Cosmo Girl, a magazine targeted at girls aged 15 plus found that out of 300 boys aged 15-17, 95% believed that you do not have to wait to be married until you have sex. Fifty two percent of them had lost their virginity at the age of 15 and 16. In other words, almost no boys in this age bracket (including those in the church) believe that you should wait until you are married before having sex. |
| Focus Jun-Aug 2003 |
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| umours have it that the latest instalment of Big Brother was designed to encourage sex on live television. Producers it seems want more action than the last series when Jade and PJ got "jiggy with it." It is alleged that alcohol will be on tap to encourage contestants to lose their inhibitions. The stakes have been raised by the Sun newspaper which has offered £50,000 to the first contestants to have sex on the show. With the average age on the show being 25 years, this is by no means a family show. Even the bookies are in on the act by taking bets on who will be the first to let it all go in the house. |
| Focus Jun-Aug 2003 |
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| Almost half of Zimbabwe's population - 7 million people - are short of food after harvests were devastated by erratic rains, fertiliser shortages and the failure of recent government land reforms. The next harvest is nine months away. |
| Teartimes - Autumn 2003 |
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| Malawi is one of the world's most heavily indebted countries - and debt and trade are entwined. Now subsidies have been slashed in Malawi and farmers get less for their crops, while the EU and USA support their farmers to the tune of £224 billion a year. |
| Teartimes - Autumn 2003 |
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| Across the world, 850 million people earn less than a living wage. Inhumane factory working conditions go unchecked: 14-hour shifts, toilet-break bans, compulsory overtime, employees fined if they make mistakes, withheld wages, verbal abuse. |
| Teartimes - Autumn 2003 |
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| National disability organisation Scope has published research which shows that 40% of bosses say they do not know if disabled people could use their buildings and 45% say they wouldn't be able to employ a disabled person because they could not afford to. |
| 31 May 2003 |
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| According to data from The Palestine Monitor, Palestine has seen it's 80th Palestinian die from prevention of access to medical treatment. |
| Faith for Life - Aug/Sept 2003 |
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| Approximately 100,000 Oku people living in the mountainous area of the NW province of Cameroon don't have God's Word in their mother tongue. |
| Faith for Life - Aug/Sept 2003 |
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| UNHCR announced recently that they are to cut funds available to CORD (Christian Outreach Relief and Development) and other groups working with refugees in Africa by 15% because they have had to divert funds to Iraq. |
| Faith for Life - Aug/Sept 2003 |
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| Tearfund and some government agencies are racing against time to prevent a catastrophe as 12.6 million Ethiopians are facing a desperate food gap...their next harvest is not due until later in the year. Each week there are reports of children dying from hunger in villages in the south of the country as food shortages tighten their grip. |
| Faith for Life - Aug/Sept 2003 |
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| Over 3,000 worldwide signatures were added last week to a petition calling for an 'inclusive church' in which homosexuals are welcomed to the episcopate. |
| The Church of England Newspaper - Thursday August 21 2003 |
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| 'The Archbishop of Canterbury and Dr Jeffrey John both argue for relaxation of the church's rules on homosexuality in a re-issued book of essays, 'The Way Forward'. |
| The Church of England Newspaper - Thursday August 21 2003 |
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