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salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry Est 1879 No 7138
FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS 19 October 2013
SOSTHOSE IN PERIL LONG FOR RESCUE
Corruption is under attack
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FORMER England goalkeeper Peter Shilton presented the trophies at a five-a-side football tournament run by The Salvation Army for people from its homeless centres. The team from Logos House Lifehouse in Bristol won the competition.
The Partnership Trophy is an annual sporting event for homeless people living in Salvation Army Lifehouses and those supported by the Salvation Army Housing Association (SAHA).
Forty teams from across the UK contested the trophy in Birmingham’s Powerleague stadium. They also took part in a penalty shoot-out masterclass led by Peter Shilton.
‘The Lifehouses are incredibly inspiring places,’ said England’s most-capped player. ‘It is great to
see that The Salvation Army is using football to help develop people’s confidence and life skills.’
Bassist Phil Spalding – who has performed with Mick Jagger and Elton John – also attended the event to speak about his experiences as a former drug-user. Phil works for the Swindon and Wiltshire Alcohol and Drug Service.
2 The War Cry 19 October 2013 News
There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God.
Lord Jesus Christ,I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong.Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free.Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit.Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever.Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen
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Extract from Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel published by Alpha International, 2011. Used by kind permission of Alpha International
Army website up for awards
Christian released afterprison and torture
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PETER SHILTON BACKS TOURNAMENT FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE
A CHRISTIAN rights activist in China has been released from prison after completing a two-and-a-half-year sentence.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) – an organisation working for religious freedom through advocacy –reported that human rights lawyer Ni Yulan was sentenced in 2012 for ‘fraud’ and ‘creating a disturbance’.
Before she was disbarred, Yulan worked on cases relating to religious freedom. CSW reports that in 2002, while in police detention, she was tortured for more than 50 hours.
Last year, Yulan received the Dutch Government’s Human Rights Defenders Tulip Prize, after being nominated by CSW and China Aid.
GRAMMY award winner Donnie McClurkin has become a presenter for Premier Gospel, the London sister station of Premier Christian Radio.
The American gospel artist can be heard on Premier Gospel on Sundays at 4 pm and Tuesdays at 7 pm.
THE international Salvation Army website, salvationarmy.org, has been shortlisted for three Christian New Media Awards.
The nominations are for: Most Creative Use of Social Media, People’s Choice, and Accessibility. The Christian New Media Conference takes place in London on Saturday 9 November. The Bishop of London, Dr Richard Chartres, and Katharine Welby, daughter of the Archbishop of Canterbury, are among the speakers.
Peter Shilton presents the trophies
SALVATION Army officer Major Val
Mylechreest beat hundreds of entrants to reach the finals of the BBC’s Pause for Thought New Voice competition.
Val joined five male finalists to present a two-minute reflection at the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. The judges – including Radio 2 presenter Vanessa Feltz – chose contestant the Rev Paul Oxley as the winner.
Listeners can hear Pause For Thought every day on Radio 2’s Early Breakfast programme.
Contributors from a variety of faiths offer thoughts and reflections on a common theme.
Grammy DJ for Premier
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enough for Muse. As negotiations continue, from below decks Phillips’s crew launch a surprise counter-attack.
The pirates fight them off and – to quell resistance – they take Captain Phillips hostage in a lifeboat. The price on his head runs to millions of dollars.
The small lifeboat is claustrophobic and hot. The pirates know that their chances of getting paid off are slim. Phillips knows that his chance of survival is small. Muse sees Phillips’s fear and vaguely reassures him: ‘Everything’s going to be OK.’
American Navy Seals steam towards the striken ship, but will Phillips live long enough to be saved and will the pirates be brought to justice?
For many people, life is rarely plain sailing. Stormy situa-tions in our personal lives, our careers, our homes can leave us feeling swamped and scared. We wonder if we will ever make it through, or if anyone really cares enough to help.
On another boat some 2,000 years ago, Jesus’ disciples experienced a storm that made them worried for their lives. The dis-ciples cried out to Jesus, who was asleep on the boat, for help.
‘“Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm’ (Mark 4:38, 39 New International Version).
What was true in a physical storm can also be true for an emotional or spiritual one. Jesus does care about whether we live or die. He doesn’t want us to be lost. He wants to save us.
Those who put out an SOS to him dis-cover that he really does save their soul.
When we realise that we can’t reach Heaven or deal with tough times by our own efforts, if we ask forgiveness for plot-ting a wrong course and submit ourselves to his guidance, we will be saved.
Ultimately, those who take Jesus on board arrive at the eternal haven safe and sound.
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Captain Phillips fears for his life
Pirates prepare to board
THERE’S trouble aboard ship. What was meant to be a straightforward voyage suddenly turns into a matter of life or death in Captain Phillips, now on general release.
Based on a true story, Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) leaves his family to take food aid halfway across the world.
Meanwhile in Somalia, coastal fishermen are planning their next takeover of a high value cargo – and Captain Phillips’s ship sails into view.
During what seems to be a calm night, the Captain receives warning of potential hijackings around the Somali border. It isn’t long before Somali pirates in speedboats try to board his vessel, but Captain Phillips and crew manage to fend them off.
The Captain then calls a meeting. He tells the crew that they have to be prepared to fight, as the pirates will be more determined next time.
Back on the pirate ship, self-appointed Captain Muse rounds up the men for a second time. They attack. They succeed. They board Phillips’s ship.
Three pirates fight their way into the wheelhouse. Captain Phillips puts his life on the line to keep the crew safe as they hide below deck.
He offers the Somali captain and his men whatever they want. But that’s not
4 Interview
NATHAN ILES talks to Renée Davis about the impact that Youth for Christ is having on young people around the UK
IN 1946, with a burning desire to tell young people about Jesus, American evange-
list Billy Graham spent six months in Britain preaching the gospel. The organisation Youth for Christ was born. Today, Youth for Christ (YFC) works with 250,000 young peo-ple through the UK in schools, churches and young offender institutions.
‘Our vision and goal is to reach every young person with the good news of Jesus,’ says Nathan Iles, who is Missions Mobilisation Director at YFC. ‘We are con-stantly looking at what is relevant in today’s street culture and responding to it.’
Nathan oversees and is responsible for Nomad, a high-energy sports outfit that runs cage football tournaments and days at festivals, community days, park events and churches. Nathan is also responsible for conducting residential training courses and gap years.
But there’s even more. Stance – YFC’s dance crew – and MOBO award-winner Guvna B, who is a YFC ambassador – regularly perform at events aimed at teenagers.
‘Youth for Christ is a great place to work,’ says Nathan. ‘The work is diverse and every week my job is different.’
No young person is excluded from YFC. The work it carries out is varied and includes people from dif-ferent social and economic backgrounds.
With more than 70 centres in the UK and projects continually evolving, YFC workers are daily building relationships with young people.
‘We find that when you use something like street
dancers, it instantly engages young people and builds credibility,’ says Nathan. ‘When young people are getting to know our dance crew, one of the common questions they ask is: “Do you get paid to do this?”
‘When some of our teams tell them that they gave up a year or two of their time and explain the difference Jesus has made in their lives, the kids are amazed by it. It gets them thinking.
‘Through our work we have seen many young people come to faith in Christ. It is brilliant to see them encoun-tering Jesus.’
YFC workers aim to meet young people on their terms. In approaching or working with young people, Nathan encourages youth workers to get alongside them.
‘There was some research done a couple of years ago which asked young people what they look for in a youth worker. Some 85 per cent of respondents said they look for a parent or grandparent figure. Young people want someone who can listen to them, chat with them and create a place of belonging.
‘One of the biggest issues facing young people across the country is finding their identity and knowing who
YFC ambassador Guvna B
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Rock climbing (left) is just one of the activities YFC provides. Street dance crew Stance (below) perform around the country
Many young people just want to feel like they belong
they are,’ Nathan explains. ‘Many young people want to “belong” so much that they end up in a gang or a group that isn’t healthy for them. But within the Church we can create a sense of community – maybe through something as simple as an after-school club. So much of youth work is about just loving young people.’
YFC One is a year-out programme that gives 17 to 25-year-olds an opportunity to give back to their commu-nity and share their experiences of what God has done in their lives. The participants also spend time gaining expe-rience in areas such as worship leading, sports, leadership, dance and drama. It is during this year that many of the
students feel they are starting to fulfil their God-given potential.‘After the gap year, some of the students go on to university and study to be
doctors or lawyers,’ says Nathan. ‘Some of them will become full-time youth workers in churches. Some will stay on and work with YFC. The gap years aren’t necessarily about training people for full-time Christian ministry. We just try to inspire them to go on in life and approach everything with a Kingdom of God mindset.’
After 65 years of adapting to the prevailing culture, Youth for Christ has no intention of easing up.
‘We have just launched a new schools’ website called RE:Quest,’ says Nathan. ‘It’s for students and teachers and presents religious education in a relevant way. It is in operation in schools across the country.
‘We are also looking at developing the year-out model for marginalised young people. We’re constantly looking at the issues facing the youth of today and how we can respond to them. It is a very exciting time.’
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FOR years, there have been stories of tin-pot dictators in faraway places creaming off foreign aid while their people suffer. Food for the starving is diverted. Medicine gets dispensed to family, friends and fee-payers. Backhanders are grabbed at. Palms are greased. The rich get richer, the poor get to fill the graveyards.
This week, that world view comes closer to home. Exposed – a global coalition of Christian organisations, including The Salvation Army – is running a week of action. Some 2,000 vigils are taking place throughout the world.
In London, St Paul’s Cathedral has been the focus of a vigil and the venue where people can sign a petition. The Global Call to End Corruption is pressing governments for ‘more open tax regimes and greater transparency in payments to combat bribery and tax avoidance’.
Exposed aims to present one million signatures to world leaders before next year’s G20 Summit in Australia.
The campaign, though, is more than a flick of the wrist. Corruption is about having dirty hands. Here. Now. In the UK.
Bankers getting ‘bonuses’ when a firm makes losses and businesses avoiding corporation tax are well-worn examples of legal – but morally shoddy – practices.
A society in which big business is allowed to get away with as much as possible while the little guy is hounded for taking cash in hand to make ends meet is broken – literally corrupt.
Two wrongs will never make a right. The solution is to right the wrongs.
Corruption is not only action, but also attitude. Ethical trading is not something just for businesses to think about. Being truthful, trustworthy and transparent are personal qualities.
They are also personal choices. We decide whether we take shortcuts. We choose whether we tell the taxman everything. We determine whether our hands – and hearts – are clean.
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PEOPLE following The Salvation Army’s New Testament Bible Challenge
are reading the whole New Testament, five chapters a week, over the course of a year. For each day’s reading plan and discussion notes visit salvationarmy.org.uk/biblechallenge
Plymouth Street Pastor honoured as local hero
LEADERS of the Scouts have said that the movement is to ‘preserve the
historic promise by its members that they will do their duty to God’, reported the Daily Mail.
The paper explained that the leaders ‘bowed to pressure’ from secular lobbyists and offered children from atheist families the chance to make a non-religious pledge when they sign up as Scouts. But it went on to say that ‘new recruits will continue to make the religious promise unless they ask for the atheist version’.
SINGER Katie Melua joins pre-senter Clare Balding for the launch of Faith in the World Week on Radio 2’s Good Morning Sunday tomorrow (20 October 7 am).
To mark the theme of the week – ‘Living Alone Well’ – Clare chats with the Rev Kate Wharton, author of Single Minded – Being Single, Whole and Living Life to the Full.
Katie Melua
Choir girls allowed
AN 86-year-old Street Pastor has won a Pride of Britain Award, reported the Daily Mirror.
According to the paper, Anne Scarfe – whose role as a Street Pastor includes helping ‘late-night revellers get home safely’ in Plymouth – was given the ITV Local Hero Award when she attended the Pride of Britain ceremony in London.
Street Pastors – a Christian-based initiative where volunteers help vulnerable people on the streets late at night – was pioneered by the Rev Les Isaac in 2003 and 250 teams are presently operating around the UK.
BILL BRYDEN’S theatre production of The Nativity is
broadcast in the first programme of the Radio 4 Extra series The National Theatre at 50 tomorrow (Sunday 20 October 11 am).
The series continues on Monday at 2.30 pm with Bryden’s The Passion Play, which will be broadcast in 15-minute episodes each weekday.
The two productions were adapted from the medieval mystery plays of York, Wakefield and Chesterfield.
Katie chats faith with Clare
SOME one and a half millennia after it was founded by Augustine, Canterbury Cathedral is on the threshold of establishing its first girls’ choir, reported The Guardian.
The Canterbury Cathedral Girls’ Voluntary Choir, as it will be known, is starting to search for its members, and the first auditions for the 20 places will be held at the cathedral on 23 November. The choir is open to girls aged 12 to 16 and will be run by the cathedral’s assistant organist, David Newsholme.
‘It is always good to create new ways of making music,’ he says. ‘This will be an exciting new chapter in the cathedral’s story.’
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719 October 2013 The War CryLifestyle
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WINTER can conjure up images of cosy nights by a log fire or crisp walks in the snow, but for some people the season can be a challenging time. Older people can be particularly vulnerable to the cold weather.
Lucy Harmer of Age UK shares the following tips of how people can stay healthy, warm and as comfortable as possible this winter:
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• Stay active. Even if you are indoors, try not to sit still for more than one hour. Get up and walk around – even if it’s just to the kitchen to make a hot drink.
• Eat well. Try to have at least one hot meal a day and regular hot drinks as these will help you to keep warm. Stock up cupboards with basic food items in case the cold weather makes it difficult to get out to a shop or supermarket.
• Keep the home warm. Heat the living area to 21C and the bedroom to at least 18C. Being cold can increase the risks of heart attacks, strokes and breathing difficulties.
• Keep your hands, face and feet warm. Wear several layers of clothing, rather than one thick layer, as layers trap warm air. Wool, fleecy or synthetic fibres are the most efficient.
• Get a flu jab. Some people are eligible for a free flu jab, so check with your GP. Flu can develop into pneumonia, so it is wise to take preventative measures.
• Order repeat prescriptions early, especially if bad weather is forecast. Check if your local pharmacy offers a pick-up and delivery service.
• Keep in touch. Maintain contact with friends and family – even if it is just by phone, email or Skype.
• Check your benefits. Most people born before 6 January 1952 will receive a Winter Fuel Payment. You may also be entitled to a Warm Home Discount on your energy bill. For more information contact your local Age UK or use the online benefits calculator on the organisation’s website.
• Reduce energy bills with insulation and draught-proofing. The government’s Green Deal scheme can help people make energy-efficient improvements or the Energy Company Obligation scheme may be able to help. For more information, call the Energy Saving Advice Service on 0300 123 1234.
• Keep on top of your energy bills. Your energy supplier can help you work out a repayment plan or may be able to offer help in the form of grants.
For more advice on staying warm and well this winter, call Age UK Advice free on 0800 169 6565 or visit spreadthewarmth.org.uk
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It is time it was exposed, writes CATHY LE FEUVRE
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YOU’RE in a long queue outside a nightclub in the rain and cold. You
know if you slip the bouncer at the door a fiver you’ll get in first and jump ahead of all the other poor souls freezing on the doorstep. What do you do?
Your sewer is blocked. It will cost an arm and leg to get it sorted out. But a plumber is prepared to unblock it and prioritise the job for a cheaper price if you pay cash. It works well for you both – you get the job done quickly and he gets cash-in-hand, which he won’t declare to the taxman.
If you think corruption has nothing to do with you, think again!‘Corruption’ takes many forms – blatant bribery, secret business
deals and abuse of power by people in government, business and even the Church – but in the UK today most of us think it happens somewhere else. Surely it doesn’t affect us – that sort of greedy, grubby dealing only happens in ‘corrupt’ countries, doesn’t it?
Of course, few if any of us will be making secret deals with corrupt government officials to secure business contracts, or will have been involved in illegal price fixing, or will have deliberately evaded paying our taxes. But if we think that corruption is only something that happens in ‘developing countries’ by people who are somehow less moral than us, then we need to just look around and examine our own behaviour.
If you give a backhander to that bouncer to jump the queue, you’ve effectively given them a bribe to gain an advantage for yourself over all the other would-be revellers who are still out in the cold on the doorstep. If, to make ends meet for your struggling business, you’ve offered a ‘gift’ to a contractor to get a better deal than your competitors, then you’ve been involved in a form of corruption. You may think it’s just ‘good business’ – but it’s actually a form of bribery. Even if ‘everybody does it’, does that make it right?
This year people have learnt that some of the largest corporations in the world are avoiding paying taxes in the places they are earning mega profits. Starbucks, Google and Amazon have all made the news bulletins. But these companies are just the big, and some might say, easy targets. And the issues have raised all sorts of questions for our culture. Is it wrong if a multi-national conglomerate evades paying taxes through use of clever and legal accounting? Many would say they are just using the existing tax systems and the existing loopholes to benefit themselves and their shareholders. However, if not illegal, some people believe it is bordering on the immoral.
Corruption is a major cause of poverty in the world today. One of the main areas of concern is the ‘extractive’ or mining industries
where under-the-counter deals with corrupt government officials or businessmen give multi-national companies the ability to strip the assets of a country, hauling away its resources and profits and paying little in the way of taxes. Furthermore, when there are secret deals it is invariably the poor people who make up the bulk of the workforce who suffer. There is little scrutiny of pay levels and working conditions as those corporations seek maximum profits.
When a corrupt health official takes a backhander for drugs, it is poor people who can’t afford to pay the bribe. When education officials demand payment for books well above the actual cost so they may skim off the profits, it is the poorer children who will end up with no books.
So who’s doing something about it?Exposed is an international coalition of Christian organisations
that is challenging the global Church, business and governments to highlight the impact of corruption on the poorest of the poor. The Salvation Army is just one of the many partners working with Exposed to urge people across the world to ‘shine a light on corruption’ wherever they find it. Since it was launched last year, thousands of people have become involved and the message has now reached 150 countries.
Across the world, Exposed is working to reach 100 million people – Christian people, people of other faiths and of no faith – to encourage them to speak out against corruption in all areas of public life.
People are being encouraged to set up ‘bribe boxes’ in their churches to declare bribery in their communities, to write
If you give a backhander you’ve effectively given a bribe to gain an advantage
Joel Edwards, International Co-ordinator of Exposed
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taxes are paid into the correct coffers’, there is still so much more to do.
‘For some people,’ he says, ‘speaking out on corruption will be dangerous because their governments and communities won’t want the boat to be rocked and have their wrongdoing exposed. But if we are to solve the problem of world poverty, we have to tackle corruption. We can play a huge part by putting pressure on the world’s governments and businesses to commit to fight corruption, and most importantly to ensure the money is ultimately spent on the poor.’
So what can we do?We can become ‘One in a Million’
and sign the Global Call to End Corruption. It takes just one minute to sign online at exposed2013.com. Or people can print off petition forms for signing in their community, school or workplace. It takes just a minute to save lives and bring hope to people living in dire poverty.
Another idea is to hold or attend a vigil. People can have a vigil at school, or in a church or prayer group.
Exposed brings light Keith works at Malaysian Care, a
Christian project in Malaysia. In July last year, two close friends died in a road accident. Keith supported the families. When the hospital asked for a bribe to release the bodies, Keith resisted because he had just received training about Exposed. Miraculously, the bodies were released. Keith and his colleague, Joyce, are actively uncovering cases of corruption in their community. Joyce recently acted as an election monitor to help stop corruption during the national vote.
to politicians and take action to resist corruption in their communities – and even their churches – and to promote increased integrity and ethics in business.
Exposed is challenging governments to tighten up on financial regulations to ensure that taxes are paid in the nations where high profits are earned and to introduce policies which create fairer societies. It is urging business leaders to look at their processes to ensure that corruptive practices become unacceptable.
This week, October 14–20, is the Exposed Week of Action. Across the world, events are under way challenging people to think not just about their own behaviour but also about the effect of corruption on
our world, and on the poorest people who live with the consequences of it.
From St Paul’s Cathedral in London to the steps of the White House in Washington DC, people have been gathering for vigils – some 2,000 short services, prayer meetings and ceremonies, where the focus is on corruption and supporting the world’s poor.
Across the world, thousands of people have signed the Exposed Global Call to End Corruption – a petition pressing for more open tax regimes and greater transparency in payments to combat bribery and tax avoidance. The aim is for one million signatures on the Global Call petition to be presented to world leaders at the G20 Summit in Brisbane in November 2014.
Exposed is also calling on world leaders not to hang around. While the ‘rich’ nations deliberate and spend years in delicate diplomacy, the ‘poorer’ nations are left out of the discussions and people continue to suffer unnecessarily. So there’s an urgency – to get corruption sorted out before time runs out for poor people and to involve the ‘poorer’ nations in the discussions to tighten up on corruption.
‘We need to involve those who are most affected – the poorer nations – in developing the solutions to this scourge that is corruption,’ says the Rev Joel Edwards, International Co-ordinator of Exposed and director of Micah Challenge, an Exposed global partner. ‘Billions of dollars go missing every year from economies because of corruption – bribes, tax evasion, price-fixing and more. If this money was invested in a country’s infrastructure, or spent on providing jobs and hospital treatment, educating children and supporting the poorest of the poor, the fate of the many millions of people who struggle to survive day-to-day would be vastly improved.’
Chair of Exposed Dion Forster says that while the group is ‘pleased that in recent months some governments, including the UK, are beginning to put strident regulations in place to prevent deliberate tax evasion by multi-national companies and to ensure fair
The aim is for one million signatures on a petition
Keith and (below) Gisela have stood up against corruption
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Billions of dollars go missing every year from economies because of corruption
• For further information visit exposed2103.com
Exposed is gaining global support
corporations to their shores. The Global Alliance of Tax Justice says that the US State of Delaware is home to more than 900,000 hidden ‘shell’ corporations and thousands of trusts. None of them is required to register their beneficial owners with tax or law enforcement authorities.
Christian Aid predicts that tax avoidance will be responsible for 5.6 million children dying in developing countries between 2000 and 2015. That equates to 1,000 children every day.
Cathy Le Feuvre is UK Media Consultant for Exposed
Transformemos Honduras (‘Let’s Transform Honduras’) is an anti-corruption, citizen-action movement. It exposed wrongdoing in the educational system that had resulted in poor children losing out on an education.
In India, one group successfully championed the cause of children in very poor areas in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh who were denied entrance to school even though education is free. They also exposed the activities of a corrupt headmaster who pocketed funds intended for free school meals and paid bribes to others to ensure his wrongdoing did not come to light.
While working in Gambia, German national Gisela resisted paying bribes for essential drugs, as she strongly believes this is what God expects from his people.
In South Africa, price-fixing in the construction industry was exposed by Michelle, who blew the whistle on these corrupt practices.
Facts and figures According to the World Bank Institute, every year
developing countries lose $1 trillion from illicit financial flows and bribes. If these countries could get tax income from this lost money, they would not need to be dependent on aid and loans from the rich nations.
Tax Justice Network calculates that $21 trillion is hidden by individuals in tax. If this money made a very modest return of 3 per cent which was then taxed at 30 per cent, the extra tax-take available to governments would amount to $190 billion, roughly double the amount OECD countries spend on all overseas development assistance.
Tax-dodging may conjure up images of shady lawyers in white suits lounging in steamy offices, but tax-evasion schemes are designed and operated by the world’s largest private banks and respected law and accountancy firms. In many cases the tax breaks are encouraged by governments keen to attract
12 The War Cry 19 October 2013 Puzzlebreak
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Noah (Genesis chapters 6–9)
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IF you went to Sunday school as a child, you might have sung this ditty, based on the Bible story of Noah and the ark:
Mr Noah built an ark. The people thought it such a lark.Mr Noah pleaded so, but into the ark they would not go.So who was Noah? And why did he build an ark?The Bible tells us that he was ‘a righteous man,
blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God’ (Genesis 6:9 New International Version). But Noah was an exception. The rest of the population was so corrupt and violent that God decided to punish them by sending a great flood to cover the earth and destroy every living thing. Only Noah and his family were to be spared.
God told Noah to build a wooden ark for himself and his wife, their three sons and their wives, plus a male and female of every kind of living creature.
When they were all safely inside the boat, the floodwaters began to cover the earth – even the mountains. Everything was destroyed except the ark (7:18–24). The rain stopped after ‘forty days and nights’ – a biblical phrase often used to describe the duration of events of major importance – and the waters began to recede.
When it was safe to disembark, Noah built an altar in thanks for God’s deliverance. God renewed his covenant with humankind: ‘Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood … As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease’ (8:21, 22).
God also put a rainbow in the sky as a permanent reminder of his promise to Noah and future generations: ‘Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures’ (9:16).
We may forget about God in our everyday lives, but the rainbow is still a colourful reminder that he has not forgotten about us. He remains true and faithful to the promise he made.
The rainbow is still a reminder that he has not forgotten about us
In this series ROSEMARY DAWSON looks at the lives of characters from the Old Testament
Next week: Moses
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Food for thought
There’s gold in them thar hills
by WESLEY HARRIS
HAVE you ever heard the saying that faith can move mountains? Do you believe that mountains can move? Despite the unlikelihood of getting a mountain to change position, I have discovered that it can happen.
When I was a youth in South Wales, the landscape was littered with piles of black slag from coal mining. There was such a heap near my house, and children used to clamber over it as they travelled to school. Later, the ‘mountain’ was removed as the material was used to make roads.
When we look at our lives, we may feel that there are plenty of bleak-looking mountains towering over us. And how we’d like them to move! But it’s not always so easy.
They may be physical problems we need to overcome, or maybe there is an emotional mountain that we need to climb. Perhaps we have heaps of doubt or masses of fear.
Some of our mountains may have sprouted in childhood and we still can’t see past them. Others perhaps shot up overnight and we don’t know how to tackle them.
As much as we want to triumph over our mountains, there are lessons to be learnt from living with them. No one wants problems, but the experiences
Facing our ‘mountains’ brings about bravery and strength
we go through can help us to help others much better.
Tackling them can mean we take in a view that we may have never considered before.
We may even find that facing our ‘mountains’ brings about bravery and strength in us – qualities we didn’t know we had.
Sometimes, with God’s help, our troubles will move out of our way. But if they don’t, we can trust the words of the Bible which say that God ‘keeps me safe on the mountains’ (Psalm 18:33 Good News Bible).
Wherever we are – however high or low we are feeling – God will never abandon us. His love is stronger, wider and higher than we can imagine.
Method:Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Mix
the biscuits, icing sugar and melted butter in a bowl. Press into the base and sides of a 23cm round cake tin. Chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
To make the filling, place the chocolate, vanilla essence and butter in a heatproof bowl over a pan of boiling water and stir the ingredients until they melt.
Beat the eggs and sugar together in a separate bowl for 4 minutes. Fold in the cream and melted chocolate mixture, then pour over the top of the biscuit base. Bake in the oven for 35–45 minutes. Once cooked, leave the pie to cool down completely.
Place the fudge sauce ingredients into a saucepan and stir over a low heat. Once the mixture is smooth, leave it to cool for 10 minutes, then spread
over the top of the pie. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving.
Serves 6
I’M Michael Darracott. I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry.
I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.
Email your recipes and questions to [email protected]
Ingredients:
For the base
275g plain chocolate biscuits, crushed
3tsp icing sugar
70g butter, melted
For the filling
80g dark chocolate
3 drops of vanilla essence
80g unsalted butter
3 eggs
75g brown sugar
90ml double cream
For the sauce
1 drop of vanilla essence
165g icing sugar, sifted
140ml double cream
145g dark chocolate
2tbsp golden syrup
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Mississippi mud pie
Ingredients:400g chicken breast3tsp vegetable oil1 onion, diced1 red pepper, diced2 carrots, thinly sliced4tbsp waterJuice and zest of 1 lime2tsp mayonnaise2tsp English mustard2tsp sugarSalt and pepper, to taste
Lime and mustard chicken
Method:Pour the oil into a pan and fry the chicken until
cooked. Place on a plate and set aside.In the same pan, fry the onion, pepper and
carrots until cooked. Mix in the water, lime juice and zest, mayonnaise, mustard, sugar and seasoning and cook for a further minute.
Return the chicken to the pan and toss around in the mixture.
Serve the chicken with rice or sauté potatoes.
Serves 4
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Nurse Angie faces temptation while dealing with doctors in ‘Breathless’
The truth is undoctoredwrites NIGEL BOVEY
REMEMBER, this is the Sixties. It’s a time when apron-wearing housewives waved bowler-hatted hubbies off to work. When Hillman Minxes were the top gear and when Matron ran the hospital with a rod of iron. Welcome to the world of Breathless.
Set in a new London NHS hospital, the ITV drama examines the lives of a group of medics in the gynaecology wing. Here, women have problems and men have complications – and that’s just the staff. So what’s the diagnosis?
As well as attending to their regular lists, leading surgeon Otto Powell and ex-Army anaesthetist buddy Charlie Enderbury do some nocturnal ‘house calls’. Abortion is still illegal but that doesn’t stop the pair from helping wealthy and grateful women who find themselves in a spot of unwanted trouble.
Their regular partner-in-crime, nurse Jean is leaving to marry a doctor. She points Angie – a transfer from a provincial hospital
to the big smoke – in Powell’s direction. Not knowing what she’s involved with until it’s too late, Angie helps out.
She refuses her cut of the money, but banks Powell’s secret. Some day, it could be payback
time.Powell, meanwhile – suave, rich and married
– has taken a shine to the young nurse. Angie is also married – to a sailor, who has disappeared. Powell, though, appears hooked.
‘You’ll find London is full of temptation and this hospital is no exception,’ Matron warned Angie on her first day.
Although Angie assured her that ‘I’m used to resisting temptation’, the charmer Powell is not easily put off.
However breathless the show’s viewers will be as intrigues play out and secrets see
the light of day, the reality is that we face personal temptations every day.
Sometimes, we find resisting them easy. Sometimes, we kick ourselves for giving in and
sinning yet again.The Bible reminds us that wrong thoughts,
attitudes, actions and reactions have consequences – that one day it will be payback time.
Christian writer Paul gives the prognosis: ‘The wages of sin is death’ (Romans 6:23 New International Version).But there is a remedy. Paul continues, ‘the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus’.When we ask God for forgiveness, he gives us strength to resist
temptation. Whatever trouble we’re in – whatever treatment we’re receiving – he invites us to put our life in his hands.
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The reality is that we face personal temptations every day