From the Episcopal Public Policy Network: “In order to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have called a meeting of world leaders, civil society and the private sector in New York this week…. Halfway towards the [MDGs] target date of 2015, the meeting is intended to review progress to date, identify gaps and next steps, and translate existing commitments into concrete plans and action on the ground to ensure that all countries can achieve the Goals. The meeting takes place during the UN General Assembly’s annual debate.

Anglicans, along with people of faith from diverse traditions and many others, will be gathering in New York to pray for the leaders meeting at the UN and to advocate for their governments to live into the promises that have been made.”

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“I ask you to go back to your countries and I ask you to ask your governments and I ask you to ask all of civil society to tell people that on September 25 we have got to make good the promises that have been made, redeem the pledges that have been promised, make good the Millennium Development Goals that are not being met.”

So said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the Anglican Communion bishops and others who participated in the Walk of Witness during this summer’s Lambeth Conference, according to an article in Episcopal Life Online. The Walk was a way to draw attention to the issue of extreme poverty around the world, and to remind the media and all who were following the Conference about the UN’s Millennium Development Goals and our church’s commitment to them.

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