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Does the church have any responsibility in the transformation of nations? Is it part of our mission as children of God to fight for a world where there is more justice and peace?

We live in times of wealth in occident juxtaposed with an intolerable poverty. Injustice and corruption continue to paralyze nations and a majority of the world's population suffers the consequences. In a world of abundance that has the capacity to produce enough food for all, twenty-five thousand people die daily from hunger. The majority are children. We violate the environment as if its only reason for existence were human consumption. Genocide - the systematic, institutional war against women - has wiped out 200 million women in the world. Only in India, a million human beings are killed every year because they are women. Women and babies are reduced to mere objects, to the point that every year, between forty and fifty million babies are killed before they are born, just because they are inconvenient. It is estimated that currently, on a global scale, 20.9 million men, women and children are enslaved in forced labor or sex trafficking.