Gordon Brown praises christian relief efforts!

THE CHURCHES are successfully teaching the parable of the Good Samaritan to the nation, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, suggested this week.
Mr Brown was speaking in an interview to mark the tenth anniversary of the chain-of-debt campaign for the relief of debt in the developing world.
“I do applaud the way churches have made this a test of being a good neighbour,” said Mr Brown. “People are helping people they will never know or meet. These people ought to recognise they have helped to transform opportunities for people all around the world.”

Mr Brown, when asked whether he went to church, replied: “I try to, I try to.” He said that campaigning against poverty in the developing world was “about the text, ‘Who is my neighbour?’ It is about a world in which people recognise that a neighbour is not simply [the person] who is geographically next door, but people who are in every part of the world. . . We are not moral strangers to each other; the more we can find a common ground — people sharing the same moral sense around the world — the more we will be able to achieve a future in making the world a safer place.”

The Prime Minister listed some of the measurable benefits of debt relief. “It has achieved an enormous amount, but obviously there is more to do — there is always more to do.” He said: “Without the work of churches and faith communities, we would not have been able to achieve so much.”
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