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Churches challenged to greater engagement with poverty in Britain

Church Action on Poverty (CAP) has launched a “challenging” new programme to inspire church congregations to greater engagement with poverty and social injustice issues in Britain.

CAP’s Just Church programme calls on Christians to “respond in prayer, understanding and action to the gospel imperative to love our neighbour”.

With the gap between the richest and poorest at its widest for years, Just Church aims to be a “prophetic, provocative and urgent” initiative, CAP said, as it reminded Christians of the pressing needs of the almost four million children still living in poverty in Britain and the 5,000 elderly who die of cold each winter.

Just Church has been sponsored and supported by a wide range of church bodies, including: the Church Urban Fund, the Baptist Union, the Shaftesbury Society, the Methodist Church, Hope 2008, Stewardship, the Iona Community, livesimply, Housing Justice, the United Reformed Church, the National Justice and Peace Network, and the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Full story at Christian Today.