That is equivalent to:
- 1 child dying every 3.6 seconds
- 16-17 children dying every minute
- A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring almost every 9-10 days
- A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 10 days
- An Iraq-scale death toll every 16–40 days
- Just under 9 million children dying every year
- Some 79 million children dying between 2000 and 2007
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. - James 4:4 (KJV)
*God is Spirit. And our Maker is our Husband, for we have the covenant with Him. spiritual adultery is when we ourselves break covenant with God (which we enter into the 'new' or 'renewed' covenant with God as His people through the Body and Blood of His Son Christ once we have repented, are baptised and begotten of God's Holy Spirit). Then for God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ to continue dwelling within us we have to constantly repent of sin for God will not dwell in sin--in us through Christ if we have sin. Put thanks be to God's and Christ's grace, mercy and love for us we can now reconcile back to God through the Ultimate Sacrifice of Christ whenever we repent with a sincere heart. When we repent we acknowledge that God, His ways, His law (for sin is the breaking of God's Law) is right and we were wrong and we turn our hearts to God striving to do it His way, and not our own (not the way of the world which is enmity with God).
'they', the media say, these facts are too 'gripping' to 'saddening' to share. they need be kept from people, but i say that's a spirit of 'hopelessness'. let's not talk about it cause we can't change it, we ain't gone change it. well those who walk by faith know there is nothing that is impossible for God. God has already supplied the resources, so the ability to change it is here. Yet God is faithful in giving us free will, and it is the choices of 'man' 'mankind' that have caused the 'destruction' of God's people. Choices out of lust out of pride, out greed and selfishness (all spirits of the master deceptive and counterfeiter, Satan).
God knows for He has provided yet the systems of man have failed and produced the fruits of those things contained in the seals of Revelation
*on both a physical and spiritual note....a famine of God's Word, even for those who are receiving 'some' but not enough (lacking, when God lacks not) mixing in other doctrines, not receiving the 'pure' word, causes a famine in us spiritually and we become as the last Church era is called in Scripture 'lukewarm'.
Matthew 24:4-7 (KJV) 4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ (THE BODY OF CHRIST-THE CHURCH OF GOD); and shall deceive many. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
*Deceptive religion-Apocalypse (GOD'S PEOPLE-TURNING AWAY FROM GOD, HIS WAYS, HIS TRUTHS)
Wars
*7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Famines
Pestilences
Tribulation, religious persecution {of the true Church-the Body of Christ, One Body, not 38,000 denominations, One Word, One Doctrine, One Faith, Jesus is the Word of God)
and martyrdom
*Matthew 24:9-10 (KJV)
9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Yolanda Adams (Songwriter: Bebe Winans)....what about the children to ignore is so easy.....and if not for those who loved us (when we were children) where would we be....what about the children. Yet, we are ALL children to God, and the children of this world are God's innocent little beings.
*what about the children who need more than just play or a toy for one day......(always kept by pagans)
what about the children, destined to be the future, but never got a chance to grow to their full potiential....we'll never know (unless God reveals it) the true inventions and cures man (mankind) have caused to just simply perish away (by their-his own free will choices)
ASTOUNDING FACTS: vaccine now offers protection from hepatitis B, at a cost of $1.50 per child to administer the three necessary doses, the vaccine does not reach many of those who need the protection most. Approximately $20 million would make the vaccine available in sub-Saharan Africa.
ASTOUNDING FACTS: at least 400,000 children die every year from the infections Hib causes; a new vaccine against Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b, which causes bacterial pneumonia and meningitis) has been introduced. Now, $80 million stands between the vaccine and the lives of the millions of children at risk in developing countries.
ASTOUNDING FACTS: Malaria, endemic to much of Africa and parts of Brazil and India, causes up to half a billion illnesses and at least 1 million deaths each year, about 75 per cent of them among children under five
ASTOUNDING FACTS: yellow fever, which kills far too many children and adults across large swaths of Africa and Latin America. A very effective vaccine has been available for 65 years, but cost keeps it out of many of the routine immunization programmes
Over 25,000** children die every day around the world.
That is equivalent to:
* 1 child dying every 3.5 seconds
* A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 1.5 weeks
Over 25,000** children die every day around the world.
That is equivalent to:
* An Iraq-scale death toll every 16–38 days
* 17-18 children dying every minute
Over 25,000** children die every day around the world.
That is equivalent to:
* Some 70 million children dying between 2000 and 2007
* Over 9 million children dying every year
ASTOUNDING FACTS: 2007-9.2 million under 5 child deaths: 4.5 million occured in Sub-Saharan Africa and 3 million occured in South Asia, mean 7.5 of the 9.2 were in two regions alone.
PER UNICEF: Progress has certainly been made as each year the number of children under 5 dying is slowly coming down. However, as UNICEF cautioned in their State of the World’s Children, 2008 PDF formatted document report, “progress has been unevenly distributed” (p.25). For example, good progress was made by a few nations with large populations, but many countries made “no progress or insufficient progress” (p.iii)
But TO KNOW WHAT CHARITY IS, WE MUST KNOW WHAT IT IS NOT. Today, people often think of charity as nothing more than a giving of money for some good cause. However, the Bible strongly contrasts the charity it proposes to the misunderstood charity of giving funds. 1 Corinthians 13:3 states, "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." According to this verse, it is possible to give all your goods to feed the poor and yet not have charity. Therefore, the giving of funds is not biblical charity.
Biblical charity can also be distinguished from other forms of love. Though most dictionaries say that charity includes the idea of the love of God for man, there is no indication that it is used in that way in the King James Bible. In fact, it is not specifically used of the love of man for God either. Although there are some passages where the word could be used in application of some of these forms of love, those passages where the word is specifically defined never refer to God's love toward man or man's love toward God.
Charity specifically refers to the love that we have toward other men. Paul stresses that we are to walk "charitably" toward our weaker brothers (Romans 14:13-15). He praised the Thessalonians because "the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth" (2 Thessalonians 1:3). In 1 Peter 4:8-9, Peter told the believers, "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without grudging."
There are plenty of passages that speak of the importance of love in general, but the Bible speaks of charity to point us to a specific kind of love. Charity is the love toward others that suffers long with them and is kind (1 Corinthians 13:4), that does not behave unseemly, seek to get its own way, or is easily provoked (1 Corinthians 13:5); that rejoices not in the iniquity of others (1 Corinthians 13:6); that bears, believes, hopes, and endures (1 Corinthians 13:7). It is the grace that proves the believer to be mature in his faith and practice. May the Lord give us all more charity.
The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. In spite of the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-over-25000-children-died-around-the-world
*Why is this tragedy not in the headlines? '....every day, the equivalent of a major earthquake killing over 30,000 young children occurs to a disturbingly muted response'.
*UNICEF’s 2000 Progress of Nations report tried to put these numbers into some perspective:The continuation of this suffering and loss of life contravenes the natural human instinct to help in times of disaster. Imagine the horror of the world if a major earthquake were to occur and people stood by and watched without assisting the survivors! Yet every day, the equivalent of a major earthquake killing over 30,000 young children occurs to a disturbingly muted response. They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.
— A spotty scorecard, UNICEF, Progress of Nations 2000
*It feels as though even when there is some media attention, the ones who suffer are not the ones that compel the mainstream to report, but instead it is the movement of the celebrities and leaders of the wealthy countries that makes this issue newsworthy.
Given the population is increasing, the reducing actual numbers shows a percentage decline in these deaths over those seven years, by 0.04%. In a way, this feels like a very small reduction given that many of the illnesses and conditions that children suffer are easily preventable, technically.
*Taking a longer term view, since 1960 (when child mortality numbers were first being recorded) the annual number of child deaths has halved, from 20 million in 1960 to just 9.2 million in 2007.
*Year Per yr Per day Per hour Per min sec Population %
2000 11 30,137.99 1,255.71 20.93 0.35 6.1 billion 0.18%
2003 10.6 29,041.10 1,210.05 20.17 0.34 6.3 billion 0.17%
2005 10.14 27,786.30 1,157.76 19.30 0.32 6.45 billion 0.16%
2006 9.7 26,575.34 1,107.31 18.46 0.31 6.5 billion 0.15%
2007 9.2 25,205.48 1,050.23 17.50 0.29 6.65 billion 0.14%
WE BECOME NUMB WHEN WE SEE CHILDREN AS 'PERCENTAGES'.....LUKEWARM IN OUR EFFORTS TO HELP, WHEN THERE IS STILL MUCH WORK TO BE DONE? FOR EVERY SOUL IS PRECIOUS UNTO THE LORD. SCRIPTURE TELLS US HOW THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN REJOICE OVER THE SAVING OF ONE SOUL, DESPITE THE 'BILLIONS' THAT HAVE BEEN BORN INTO THIS WORLD AS FLESH.
*In addition, given the population in 1960 was 3 billion whereas 2007 was about 6.65 billion this means that there has been an almost five-fold improvement in saving lives of children from a percentage basis. That is, although population has increased (a lot), the number of child deaths has reduced even more.
*HAVE WE BECOME NUMB THROUGH ALL OF THE MOVIES, TECHNOLOGY AND BOOKS? AS THE PATIENT WHO RECEIVES IN THE ANESTHESIA BEFORE SURGERY? AT A TIME WHEN WE HAVE MUCH MORE AVAILABLE TO HELP OTHERS AND WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE OTHERS (ONE ANOTHER) AS WE LOVE OURSELVES, AS WE LOVE OUR HOMES, AS WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN, AS WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY, AS WE LOVE OUR GOD, AS WE LOVE OUR LORD & SAVIOR?
WHEN JESUS SAID THE POOR WOULD ALWAYS BE WITH US THAT DIDN'T MEAN STOP HELPING, STOP TRYING, STOP DOING ALL THAT WE CAN INCLUDING USING THE POWER OF PRAYER FOR NOT ONLY OURSELVES BUT FOR OTHERS. FOR THEY WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US BECAUSE OF THE SYSTEMS OF MAN WHICH FAIL, NOT BECAUSE GOD ISN'T ABLE, NOT BECAUSE GOD HASN'T PROVIDED, NOT BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T CARE BUT B/C OF THE NATURE OF 'MAN'
*AND JESUS KNEW THIS THROUGH THE REVELATION OF GOD'S SPIRIT, FOR ALL THAT HE DID AND SAID WAS FROM THE FATHER.
Starvation is a severe reduction in vitamin, nutrient and energy intake. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage[citation needed] and eventually, death. The term inanition refers to the symptoms and effects of starvation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation
According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the gravest single threat to the world's public health.[1] The WHO also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases.[1]
WOW, I REMEMBER SOMEONE ASKED WHY WE HAVEN'T FOUND THE CURE FOR THIS THAT AND THE OTHER, WELL THE 'VILLAGE' AIN'T NO LONGER BEEN RAISING THE CHILD, FOR THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES. LETTING OUR FUTURE DIE, THERE LIES THE CURES, THERE LIES THE TRUE INVENTORS, THERE LIES THE TRUE PEOPLE OF GOD. FOR CHILDREN GROW WHEN THEY ARE PROPERLY NOURSIHED AND GOD PROVIDED ENOUGH RESOUCES FOR ALL
* FOR HE TELLS US TO MULTIPLE. GOD IS PERFECT AND WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS IF THERE WAS LACK, FOR WE KNOW THERE IS NO LACK WITH GOD, ONLY THE SYSTEMS OF MAN FAIL MAN AND GOD BUT GOD FAILS NOT, GOD CAN NOT FAIL.
so common where poor hygiene and sanitation, unsafe water and malnutrition, is leading to the death of millions of innocent children, babies, every single year in and year out; in a civilized world, in a world with systems and governments and people called to have compassion and love one another as themselves. I remember that picture with the children holding hands standing on and around the world the globe, *of all different colors, yet beautiful children, precious souls, God's little jewels...emeralds, crystal stones. we have to hold hands we got two, united God's people stand, undevored by the enemy safely in the Father's hand.
**the newest 2010 article reports 24,000 children a day, which is still 'astounding' as it adds up to 1,000 every hour on the hour, of children dying everyday**
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