Love Prevails!: The WORLD: Refugee & Poverty!

The Universe-Mother Earth works in love. She is never in a hurry. We plunder her out of greed for all the resources we want. But love is all she knows. God built her with love. Mother Earth is our home.

Wikipedia’s List of largest refugee crises

Rows highlighted in blue indicate a present event that is occurring.

Event	Refugees estimate	Origin	From	Until	Duration
World War II	60.0 million	Europe	1939	1945	6 yrs
Partition of India	10.0–20.0 million	Indian subcontinent	1947	1948	1 yr
World War I	7.0–15.0 million	Europe	1914	1918	4 yrs
Russian Invasion- Ukraine	9.2 million	Ukraine & Russia	2022	Present	3yrs, 1mnth
Bangladesh Liberation War	9.0 million	Indian subcontinent	1971	1971	8 mths
Crisis in Venezuela	8.9 million	Venezuela	2014	Present	10 yrs
Syrian Civil War	6.7 million	Syria	2011	Present	13 yrs
Soviet–Afghan War	6.2 million	Afghanistan	1978	1989	11 yrs
Yemeni Civil War	4.5 million	Yemen	2015	Present	9 yrs
Sudanese civil war	3.5 million	Sudan	2023	Present	2 yrs
Vietnam War	3.0 million	Mainland Southeast Asia	1975	2000	25 yrs
War in Afghanistan	2.6–2.7 million	Afghanistan	2001	2021	20 yrs
Yugoslav Wars	2.4 million	Yugoslavia	1991	2001	10 yrs
Korean War	1.0–5.0 million	Korea	1950	1953	3 yrs
Iraq War	2.2 million	Iraq	2003	2011	8 yrs
Rwandan Genocide	2.1 million	Rwanda	1994	1996	2 yrs
Iraqi Uprisings	1.8 million	Iraq	1991	1991	8 mths
Wars in the Caucasus	1.5–2 million	Caucasus	1988	1996	8 yrs
Mozambican Civil War	1.7 million	Mozambique	1977	1992	15 yrs
Arab-Israeli Conflict	1.6 million (700,000 Palestinians est. 900,000 Jews est.)	Palestine (region)	1947	Present	77 yrs
South Sudanese Civil War	1.5 million	South Sudan	2011	2020	9 yrs
Rohingya Genocide	1.3 million	Myanmar	2016	Present	8 yrs
Algerian War	1.0 million	Algeria	1954	1962	8 yrs
Irish Great Famine	1.0 million	Ireland	1845	1849	4 yrs
First Libyan Civil War	1.0 million	Libya	2011	2011	8mths
Somali Civil War	1.0 million	Somalia	1991	Present	33 yrs

UNICEF - What is child poverty? How many children live in poverty?

Children experience poverty when there is a lack of nutrition like food, water, shelter, education and health care. This describes a deprivation of multiple basic rights. Child poverty is a global issue.

The extreme child poverty estimates in 2022:

333 million children living in extreme poverty (surviving on less than $2.15)

829 million children living below $3.65
1.43 billion children living below $6.85
At the end of June 2023, 110 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.

Poverty can last a lifetime for children, and the deficits they experience can be difficult to overcome later in life.

In India, 11.5% of children live in extremely poor households, which is about 52 million children.

CONCLUSION:

All wealth-that one is blessed with, is not meant for one to lavish on oneself but is meant to share with those who are in need.

For example, a person has 4-5 houses in different parts of the country or in the world.

Is it necessary? No. A home is where a family comes to dwell under one roof.

What is the use of the 5 houses, one cannot live in all of them at the same time. And since you have one child, your child cannot at one time, in all common sense be living in all of them either. So, what is the point of the 4-5 houses.

The more we are given; the more is expected from us. And how we fail miserably.

GOD is The Greatest Mathematician!

When God distributes the Talents-the resources we are blessed with, (wealth, possessions, money, property). God knows where it must go and we know it, but we do not think it necessary to share our resources. God will send us reminders of what we must do. But we ignore all the messages. And failure to help means failing to help our brother or sister, who is in much need.

God desires for us to reach to our broken-hearted brothers or sisters.

God reached out to us; by blessing us with the resources-the wealth. God NOW expects for us to reach to our brothers and sisters in what God has blessed us with so that we would be a blessing to our poorer brothers and sisters. But we FAIL.

God does not expect equal results from everyone's work.

In the Parable of the Sower, one servant makes a return of five talents, while another makes two talents. The master praises both equally (Matthew 25:23). It's important to observe that both servants invest for the benefit of their master, and they return to him not only his original investment, but also what they make on his behalf. When we say that everything, we have is a gift from God, what it also means is, it belongs to God.

All our earthly belongings-possessions belong to God.

Therefore, this act of charity business thinking one can bribe God is sheer foolishness. You cannot give to God charity so that you can get forgiveness for all your sins.

Ask God for forgiveness and believe He will forgive. You don't need to bribe God. God does not think like you or me.

To be entrusted with talents, resources-wealth-money, and opportunities means to work toward God's purposes in the world and by doing so, we take our place among the faithful, trustworthy servants of God, no matter how big or small our accomplishments may seem.

We work unto The Lord!

Please also read:

The Parable of the Talents. Part 1

The Parable of the Talents. Part 2

Feeding The 5000 - The boy. Part 3

The Widows Offering. Part 4

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER - TABLE

The Beatitudes - Part 1.

The Beatitudes - Part 2. ccc

A Just God! Part 1

A Just God! Part 2

A Just God! Part 3