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What are Material Riches?
What is Material Poverty?
What are Spiritual Riches?
“Faith, Hope, and Love” (1 Cor 13:13)
What is Spiritual Poverty?
“The most terrible poverty
is loneliness”
– Blessed Mother Teresa
Symptoms of Spiritual
Poverty Suicides per 100,000
Egypt 0.05
Guatemala 2.35
Mexico 4.05
Brazil 4.60
Zimbabwe 7.90
United States 11.10
Germany 11.95
Cuba 12.25
China 13.90
France 17.25
N. Korea 21.85
Russia 31.70
Demographic Shift to Global
SouthNumbers of Christians Worldwide(2000)
Europe 560 million
Latin America 480 million
Africa 360 million
Asia 313 million
North America 260 million
Numbers of Christians Worldwide (projected 2025)o Europe 555 milliono Latin America 640 milliono Africa 633 milliono Asia 460 million
*By 2050, only 20% of Christians will be Western
Testimony of Poverty
“How hard it is for a rich
man to enter the kingdom
of Heaven”
– Matt. 19:23
Active Spiritual Warfare
Martyrdom
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the Church” – Tertullian 200 A.D.
Ugandan Martyrs (1885-1887)
Miguel Pro (1927)
Sudanese Martyrs (1983-2005)
How do we help?
“Those who have come into genuine contact with Christ cannot keep Him for themselves, they must proclaim Him”
“Many who are last will be first” Mark 10:31
“I have come that you may have life and
have it more abundantly” John 10:10
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