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Home » Social Spirituality Blog » National Strength in Option for the Poor

National Strength in Option for the Poor

  • by Sandie
  • 08/10/201424/07/2017

"Our strength as a nation is gauged by how we treat the weakest and the most vulnerable among us." Archbishop  Julian Leow Beng Kim of Kuala Lumpur, Installation Speech, October 2014.Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia said at his installation, that Malaysia stands at a crossroads. It’s story, he said, should not be “about competing with each other, to see who is first, who is more superior or who is more successful, but our strength as a nation is gauged by how we treat the weakest and the most vulnerable among us.”

Giving voice to the Church’s option for the poor, he said: “The most neglected of our society must be our priority to move this nation forward.”

Read more here.

  • Do you believe that a nation’s strength is measured by the way the most vulnerable and neglected are treated?
  • How do political parties and community groups in your country measure national strength?

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