IN a powerful speech to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Loretta Minghella OBE chief executive of Christian Aid UK (pictured below) said ending poverty meant changing attitudes here at home as well as in the world’s poorest countries.
‘Never has there been a more important time to connect the local national and global pictures: to challenge the devastating myth of them and us,’ she told an audience that included HRH The Princess Royal.
Identifying climate change and discrimination against women as two of the key causes of global poverty, Ms Minghella, sister to the late film director Anthony Minghella, said Christian Aid was empowered by its transformational partnership with the church.