Global Urban Issues
by Mark Kramer
The
articles that follow are not exhaustive. The issues facing today's cities are
innumerable and, sometimes, overwhelming, and thus it's impossible to fully
describe such issues here. But we must begin to engage the issues
facing the poor and unreached of our cities if we're to love and identify with
them. Below are some select resources to help you do so.
Sex Trade
Praying for Children at Risk: Sex Trade
Child Labor
Praying for Children at Risk: Child Labor
Sanitation and Hygiene
Home Economics
Statistics on housing density and adequate, safe water for various places around
the world.
Praying for Children at Risk: Sanitation & Hygiene
Religion
Muslim Cities
by J. Dudley Woodberry
Children in the City
Suffer the Children: The Impact of
Poverty on America's Future
AIDS
The Sub-Culture
Of AIDS
by Chip Heim
Drug Culture
The Urban Church
and the Drug Culture
by Andrew Jones
Working Poor
Urban Pilgrims
and Pioneers:
Industry, Unions, Jesus and the Blue Collar Worker
by Jeanne Reppert
The Middle Class
The Middle Class
and Urban Mission
by Robert Banks
Globalism
The Effect of Multinational
Companies on Development
The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development outlines some of the basic
ethical issues in multinational business.
Return to the Global Urban Missions feature.
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