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Poverty: Public Enemy #1 by Gospel for Asia (Part 1)

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February 25, 2020
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WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA, www.gfa.org), founded by KP Yohannan, issues the first part of an extensive Special Report on extreme poverty worldwide, how poverty alleviation and elimination is possible, but it is not inevitable.

Gospel for Asia issues the first part of an extensive Special Report on extreme poverty worldwide, how poverty alleviation and elimination is possible, but it is not inevitable.
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If the modern world is truly a “global village,” that means everyone on earth is our neighbor—and Jesus was very clear about how we are to treat our neighbors. We have a responsibility to help them out of difficult circumstances.

While issues such as health care, education, the environment, equality for women and protection for endangered children are all major global concerns with their own particular challenges, they are also, in part, fueled by a common force: poverty.

In the United States, $1.90 is mere pocket change—the cost of a serving of wake-up java from your favorite coffee shop. But in other parts of the world, $1.90 represents a bitter cup as the official marker of extreme poverty—the daily income line below which too many struggle to eke out an existence.

Globally, around 736 million people are in this group, many of them children. Lacking adequate housing, hygiene, health care and education because they simply don’t have enough money, they pay a high price: disease, discrimination and, often, early death.

Indeed, poverty might well be viewed as the tip of a Titanic-like iceberg…

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Learn more about how the simple gift of an income-generating animal can be the turning point for an impoverished family—one their family has likely been desiring for generations, rescuing them from poverty.

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