Churches and other religious organisations across the world provides great charitable work. All real religions believe in aiding those less fortunate than themselves. Many religion charities provide services for people living with HIV/AIDS. An example for this would be Saddleback Church in California. Elizabeth Styffe is the director of the Orphan Care Initiatives and co-founded the HIV/AIDS Initiative at Saddleback Church. She is dedicated on equipping churches nationally and internationally to end the orphan catastrophe. Elizabeth allowed her faith to take her on an unpredicted journey into the pain and misery of orphaned children in a way that radically altered her relationship to God, her opinion of Christians’ responsibility to care for …show more content…
This nongovernment organisation has no reps abroad or projects of its own. It works completely through local structures, mainly churches or voluntary bodies, and depends on regional screening of projects by experts. It also liaises closely with the global network of Christian churches and councils centred on the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Christian Aid has faith in that this method encourages the idea of partnership and development in its own right. Although initially established for relief work, Christian Aid as well trusts that whatever aid comes from outside, long- term development can only come from within a society. Christian Aid focuses on Refugees, Developing countries, Poverty alleviation, Hunger, Poverty, Drought, Nongovernmental organizations, …show more content…
al. (Comprehending Drug Use: Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins, 2003), indicated that religiosity is a strong predictor of women’s involvement in HIV-related risky behaviours. This survey based research was done on about 240 women who were above the age of eighteen living in Atlanta Georgia between 1997 and 2000. Religiosity was measured using three variables: one how frequently the person attended worship services during the past year, two how strongly they felt about religious beliefs, and lastly an interaction term linking the two variables. HIV-related risky behaviour was evaluated through three main causes: injection drug use, multiple partners, and anonymous sex. The results indicated that religion is a strong predictor of women’s participation in HIV-related risky behaviours, even when accounted for confusing variables (demographics, childhood abuse, substance misuse, and condom related beliefs). The research revealed that the more frequent the women go to worship services the less involved they inclined to be in HIV-related risky behaviours. The conclusion from both of these researches are similar in proposing that religions or religious based institutions are able to play an important role in helping individuals and societies reduce their association in HIV risk behaviours. Since these organizations are often extremely trusted and greatly dependent upon by the people they serve, they are encouraging ways for
While comparing her time, theology and spiritual practice we realize she lived during the time of immense change, similarly we are living on the edge of a challenged modernity. Her spiritual direction allows us to recognize and develop further abilities in our pastoral ministries of caring for one another as participants within the corporate communities as well as within the mission fields.
...at God’s love and desire for his children to join him in the kingdom of heaven are so great, that their immensity is incomprehensible, and that He is eager to go to boundless magnitudes to gain His children’s souls. Her infallibility to spread the views of her religion throughout A Good Man is Hard to Find indeed shows that these beliefs are ones O’Connor willed itching to be scratched by the fingers and begging to be explored by the minds of all her booklovers.
Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." Franklin, Wayne, Phillip F. Gura and Arnold Krupat. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007. 147-158.
The Catholic Church habitually donates billions of pounds to overseas charities – The Economist stated in 2010 that the American Catholic Church alone donated $4.7 billion to charities, not to mention the amount given to local charities through the Sunday collections in churches all over the world. 26% of all world HIV/AIDS help organizations are run in some way by the Catholic Church, and especially in Africa where Catholic missionaries and charities have successfully managed to greatly alleviate the rate of HIV/AIDS. It’s not only about the physical relief of the poor – it’s about the message that the Church preaches: a message of hope and
The article has changed my knowledge and opinion about HIV prevention because it provided me with a multidimensional view on the gender roles that affect society that have been ignored in many prevention programs. We must consider the role of men in women’s risk especially the beliefs, values, norms, attitudes towards women and the power in males in relationships. The article provided a new insight on how to implement new prevention programs for women.
An illustration of religion impacting the economy negatively is demonstrated in the method Religious Right asserted pressure to remove comprehensive sex education from the curriculum and teach abstinence-only sex education. A direct correlation of abstinence-only sex education is a proliferation in teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy impacts not only the young mother negatively but the economy negatively as well. The monetary burden placed on society to support the young teen mother and her child is compounded with the distressing economic reality that a teen mother who is incapable of completing her education will earn appreciably less in her lifetime, pay considerably less in taxes, and statistically consume significantly more of society’s resources.2
In the documentary Abstinence Comes to Albuquerque, abstinence-only education stirred up a controversy. The controversy brought a variety of social and political issues out into the light. One social issue is the stigma associated with sexual behavior or sexual experience and a policy concern is that religion is influencing public policy. Even after a federally authorized Mathematica study exposed the ineffectiveness of abstinence-only education both Congressional Democrats and Republicans continued to fund these programs. The reasons behind this action includes fear of the topic of sex and not wanting to do anything that will upset their constituency, thus hurting their chances of reelection.
Feed My Starving Children is an organization that is committed to feeding God’s children hungry in spirit and body, so it is a Christian
Christian Response to Third World Poverty and Injustice b) Every disciple, every authentic Christian, must be on the road: not yet arrived or perfect, but moving, striving, falling and restarting in hope, and this ethos applies to the tackling of Third World poverty and injustice. Over one billion people are living in poverty today. The gap between rich and poor is getting wider. All over the world, disparities between rich and poor, even in the wealthiest of nations is rising sharply.
If one is a Christian looking to establish a business in a third world country, instead of just falling into the secular worldview of thinking that it is okay to dump waste into their water because there is no law against it; one might look at from a Christian worldview.
The viewpoints that are the most vehemently opposed to legalizing prostitution in the United States stem from religious ideals. Charles Clark, senior editor at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, suggests that sex out of marriage is a large factor in the disapproval of prostitution from religious Americans (1993). The religious perspective offers something than many prostitution arguments lack. A series of guidelines and clear cut rules on the matter. Evelina Giobbe (as cited in Clark, 1993), director of Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution, implies that most religious groups find that prostitution is immoral (1993). The idea that prostitution is immoral makes making policy on the matter easy. Those who prescribe to the religious way of thinking seem to suggest that prostitution should not be allowed and therefore criminalized. On the other hand there are arguments against prostitution that feel that it is immoral for other reasons.
Kirby D. (2007) “Sex and HIV Programs: Their Impact on Sexual Behaviors of Young People Throughout the World.” Journal of Adol
Kippax, S., Stephenson, N., Parker, R. G., & Aggleton, P. (2013, August). Between individual agency and structure in HIV prevention understanding the middle ground of social practice [Journal]. American Journal of Public Health, 103 (8), 1367-1375. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301301
The churches in the world play a huge role in the determination to access of food, clean water, and shelter. No matter what religious affiliation, people will donate money to churches to help this growing problem that has arisen. This is important because churches are a good way to give those in need the supplies they need. The churches give the money raised by the offerings that people donate. This is effective because there are so many churches around the world. If most people donate a little bit of money, a substantial amount of people will be helped. The Christ House is a p...
One of the most basic teachings in the Catholic Church is to ?Love one another as I have loved you.? This can be implied towards people living in poverty as we can follow the steps that Jesus had undertaken to love other people even if they are your enemies. By showing love and compassion we can create a world that is aware of poverty issues and help the declination of poverty. Countless organisations are heavily involved in carrying missions to help ultimately eradicate poverty. These charities and organisations include CARITAS, World Vision, Oxfam, St Vincent de Paul and many other non profitable organisations which help carry out work to help those who are in need.