Although I am not personally a religious man and prefer to look at hunger as a practical secular problem, religious people and institutions have worked diligently in the cause to end hunger.
A powerful TV documentary presented by the National Council of Churches USA (NCC), “Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts,” takes an unflinching look at the persistent problem of hunger in the 21st century and offers solutions. It is available to NBC television network affiliates beginning September 10.
Most of us don’t often ask where our next meal is coming from. But for millions of Americans and nearly a billion people worldwide, such food insecurity is a daily reality. The documentary approaches hunger from the perspective of faith, declaring that hunger is more than a social issue.
“It is a moral issue that needs immediate resolution,” says Burton Buller, president of Mennonite Media, who produced the program in collaboration with the NCC.
This one-hour, closed-captioned special, presented by the NCC in partnership with the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, will be telecast by NBC affiliates nationwide, beginning on Sunday, September 10. Interested viewers should call their NBC station and ask when the program will be broadcast locally.
A study guide for the program or more information is available online at councilofchurches.org/hunger.
http://www.wfn.org/2006/08/msg00155.html
Peace, Scott Hughes