PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD
Inter-Church Aid Meeting
The world today was agonised by war, tortured by racialism, and racked by population pressure, the inter-church aid secretary of the National Council of Churches (Mr F. G Heard) told persons attending the inter-church aid evening of the council’s annual meeting in Christchurch last evening. Mr Heard said that the war could be seen by situations in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Biafra; racialism in countries including India, Pakistan, the United States and Fiji, and the population pressure in decreasing aid being sent overseas.
In New Zealand the three problems affecting interchurch aid were the proliferation and commercialisation of appeals, the lack of a force 10 project—including the involvement of more young people—and the spreading of an affliction known in the United States as “compassion fatigue.” The work being done by an East Asian Christian Conference service team in Saigon was outlined by Mr S. M. Smith, a Christchurch accountant who recently returned after a year in Saigon under the sponsorship of the National Council of Churches. “The Vicious Spiral,” a British film showing world problems of starvation and over-population, and how they could be solved, was shown during the evening.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31760, 17 August 1968, Page 14
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