Anglican bishops march to protest world poverty (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) - Hundreds of Anglican bishops from around the world were among 1,500 people who marched through central London Thursday calling for urgent action to tackle global poverty. Prime Minister Gordon Brown lent his support to their calls, telling them in a speech afterwards that the march was "one of the greatest public demonstrations of faith that this country has ever seen". The march, organised during a once-a-decade gathering of the Anglican church underway in Canterbury, was aimed at calling on world leaders to do more to meet the UN Millenium Development Goals set in 2000 to tackle world poverty. In a letter intended as a manifesto for the march, the church's top cleric, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, said most of the goals to halve poverty by 2015 would not be achieved as things stood. "Christian... [read full story]