Children's classes for moral education - a path to building a new and better world
I came across this report that gives a graphic illustration of the sordid condition the world continues remain in, despite the anecdotal treatment that the millions of human tragedies are given in the mainstream press. The latter's influence can cause us to forget so easily the appalling suffering and privations of unnumbered fellow global citizens - our brothers and sisters, fathers, mothers and children (in spirit).
Read the full report here.
Dictum:
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I came across this report that gives a graphic illustration of the sordid condition the world continues remain in, despite the anecdotal treatment that the millions of human tragedies are given in the mainstream press. The latter's influence can cause us to forget so easily the appalling suffering and privations of unnumbered fellow global citizens - our brothers and sisters, fathers, mothers and children (in spirit).
Ten million people are at risk for starvation in Chad and Niger. 400,000 children are at risk in Niger alone. Years of crop-destroying drought are being followed by flash floods. The drought has been causing hunger for years, destroying crops and livestock. Now, the floods have wiped out what's left.
Read the full report here.
Dictum:
[W]e must not allow ourselves to forget the continuing, appalling burden of suffering under which millions of human beings are always groaning—a burden which they have borne for century upon century... The principal cause of this suffering, which one can witness wherever one turns, is the corruption of human morals and the prevalence of prejudice, suspicion, hatred, untrustworthiness, selfishness and tyranny among men. It is not merely material well-being that people need. What they desperately need is to know how to live their lives—they need to know who they are, to what purpose they exist, and how they should act towards one another; and, once they know the answers to these questions they need to be helped to gradually apply these answers to every-day behaviour. It is to the solution of this basic problem of mankind that the greater part of all our energy and resources should be directed…."
(From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Italy, November 19, 1974)
(Source: Lights of Guidance, # 414)
(From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Italy, November 19, 1974)
(Source: Lights of Guidance, # 414)
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