In the Bible Jesus is reported to have told one of his followers "we will always have the poor" but do we have to?
I've read that during a time in islamic history, it actually became difficult to find a poor person to give charity. Among certain ethnic communities today there is virtually no poverty. Can this lifestyle of helping and uplifting each other be done on a global scale? If so, how do we overcome political, linguistic, and ideological boundaries, respecting differences but not allowing them to divide us?
More than 700 million people live in extreme poverty, and must conti