On the foreign intelligence matters. You recently wrote that the Church Committee experienced of your Church Committee experience is its important we recognize the extraordinary power the United States has in the international respect for our constitutional principles. But it often seems in times of crisis we forget that power. Why is that . I think the phrase in times of crisis. We cede we being the other branches of government particularly the congress cede to the executive branch great powers. If we are under assault or perceive ourselves to be under assault. The problem is that then encourages administrations to, i wouldnt say generate crisis, but to elevate a crisis to acquire power. This is where congress is most under pressure to do its job and to ask questions. Not to undermine executive authority but to defend the constitution. And protect the American People. Again, as i said there and ive said many times in other places those of us who have had a chance to travel the world k
Tly hearing on science, space and Technology Committee with gina mccarthy. And faithbased organizations and delivering care to countries with hiv aids. This first group looked at a report on Global Health conducted by the lancet. This is an hour. Good morning. Sorry for the few minutes delay getting started. Im the Deputy Director of the Global Health policy here at csi s. It is my pleasure to welcome you for what promises to be a new series on faithbased health care. Before we get started, thanks to anita smith. I want to say thank you to katie on my team, instrumental in pulling everything together this morning. Faith is a powerful force in the lives of individuals is and communities throughout the world. Faithbased organizations are an important provider of health care globalry and resource for Health Services and support, particularly at the Community Level and hard to reach populations in some of the poorest places in the world. As rick Warren Church noted there may not be a churc
But i think that our work, the work ahead continues to be the building of trust, the building of understanding, the building of what we call faith literacy and development, this literacy across the two communities. And i would like to just point out that the materials, all the materials for the conference, are available on the website of the joint learning initiative at www. Jliflc. Com. I commebled those to you commend those to you. Anita great. Thank you. Now well open the floor to questions. There will be people coming by with microphones and so please wait to get the microphone before you ask your question. Id like to you identify yourself and your organization before you ask a question. Well take three at a time and then well pose them to the panel. Weve got several hands up here. Questioner good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for your presentation. My organization is hope for tomorrow. A u. S. Based organization although were also based in ken yafment thank you
Okay. Well i will ask each of you on the panel youve done such an amazing work. And, you know have given us so much to think about. I would like to hear from you in summary what you would like to see as next steps as a result of your work. Been that youve put so much effort into the research and the writing, and not necessarily relating to the piece youve written, but how you would like to see this play out, so jill . As someone academy and immersed in evidence, that is what im hinting at at the moment. And its similar to the comment about the lanset by having these papers in here signaling something in terms of the broader discipline. And ill give you an example. We hosted a conference on the Health Systems conference in cape town and there were 2,000 people there and there were only two faithbased conferences and it is a signal to the fact that these issues come up in conferences, we have separate conversations about faith and faithbased providers but they are rarely intergrated into
That was an interesting question. You asked about whether there was any differences between the written theology as opposed to a more verbal one. Yeah, the main face that we looked at obviously did have a written. What we didnt look at, and weve actually referred to this in the paper, was the enormous richness of traditional faiths and certainly i can speak mainly in africa, but im sure the truth is in asia where the faiths have been there for years and sometimes in a sink syncrotistic way. More modern faiths such as christianity and islam, we didnt look at those because the diversity of those would have needed a lot more work. All we could see was a very interesting thing, was that there was a considerable enthusiasm among all of the faith leaders for seeing how they could be more involved and actually there was a great opportunity expressed in the work that we did for making faith leaders more aware so that their sacred teachings, the preachings about traditional values could actuall