Posted Friday 25 July 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops leading the march. Picture courtesy of the Lambeth Conference.
Bishops representing the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church joined the hundreds of other bishops attending the Lambeth Conference in the Walk of Witness through London to demand urgent action on global poverty.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, leading the walk from Whitehall to Lambeth Palace, called on governments to fulfil their promises on aid and development or see the world's poor suffer disease, starvation and death. Nearly all of the 670 bishops attending the Lambeth Conference participated in the Walk, together with their spouses and other faith leaders.
A letter was handed to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, warning that most of the Millennium Development Goals agreed by world leaders in 2000 to halve poverty by 2015 would not be fulfilled by then, and risked never being achieved at all.
Mr Brown, addressing the gathering, said the Walk was "the greatest public demonstration of faith Britain has ever seen". He said: "You have sent a symbol, a very clear message with rising force that poverty can be eradicated, poverty must be eradicated and if we all work together for change poverty will be eradicated."
Category: Bishops, General, Lambeth 2008
