Bono at Prayer breakfast

Bono, someone I deeply admire spoke at the Washington prayer breakfast today and didn't disappoint, just as Mother Teressa called out the Clinton administration on abortion , so Bono called out this administration and the Washington leadership to do more to
aid the extreme poverty and AIDS crisis in Africa, some of the highlights were Bono saying;

"in this long day, 6,500 Africans will die of AIDS and 110 million kids
won't get to go to school."

he also said

"it's unjust to keep poor people from selling their goods while singing the virtues of the free market, to hold children to ransom for the debts of their grandparents and to withhold medicines that would save lives.
"God will not accept that," he said. "Mine won't. Will yours?"

Referring to the Bible and Koran and what they say about dealing with the poor
he quted these scriptures

Matt. 25:40 - "And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.

Isaiah 58:6-8 - "Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens,To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you;The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. "

and out of the Koran

Surah 2.177 - "but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives,"

All these verses spell it out for us that , that we should care for the poor, whether that verse is written by men or God, it still remains true


and..

This is how I desire to live with regard to helping the poor

MCI