Christian activist decries world's increasing greed

'We're not leaving anything good behind,' says Bill Chu
Mike Howell, Vancouver Courier
Published: Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Bill Chu spent his Monday afternoon at Lutheran Manor.

But the longtime Christian wasn't there to participate in a service. Instead, the 59-year-old Marpole resident spoke at a press conference as the coordinator of a coalition of faith leaders.

The issue: Continuing to pressure city hall to ensure that social service use permits be relaxed so churches can feed and offer services to the poor and marginalized without encumbrance.

"The pattern in every North American city is similar--homelessness explodes when the government, the people and the church disown and alienate the poor," Chu said before the press conference. "When the poor are dehumanized to a point when politicians are criminalizing poverty, approving the conversion or destruction of the poor's habitats, or thinking of warehousing them away during the Olympics, we need to stop and ask what kind of civil society we have become."

Read the rest here