ENI – The global financial crisis should not derail progress that has been made on fighting poverty worldwide, religious leaders request. "When the powers that be declare there is an emergency, there is mobilization," Rev. David Beckmann, president of the Washington-based anti-hunger group Bread for the World, urged the United Nations Millennium Development Goals should not be forgotten.
Beckmann noted that as he spoke the U.S. Congress was debating a financial bailout for Wall Street financial institutions of nearly US$700 billion, while "religious communities have been working with pennies for decades" against hunger and poverty.
