2. The four greatest threats… Climate change Terrorism HIV/Aids and other major diseases Challenge for evangelism

3. Climate change The burning of coal, oil and gas has increased the amount of CO 2 in the atmosphere by 30 per cent over natural levels 150,000 people already die every year as a result of climate change Just 2-3 ° C of warming could mean up to 300 million more people will be at risk of malaria

4. Climate change www.stopclimatechaos.org

5. Terrorism In the four years since al-Qaeda launched its war in earnest, 5,000 people have lost their lives in attacks in, among other places, Washington DC and New York, Bali, Madrid, London and Sharm el Sheik Four suicide bombers struck in central London on Thursday 7 July 2005, killing 52 people and injuring 700 A car bomb on the Indonesian island of Bali on 12 October 2002 killed 202 people, from as many as 24 different countries, though the majority were Australians

6. Terrorism “We must try to find ways of dealing with terrorism in the dangerous world we live in which do not actually spark off a war... by the less glamorous, less dramatic form of counter-terrorism – through good intelligence-sharing and getting such good information on the intentions and plans of the group that you can intervene before they carry out their attacks.” Professor Paul Wilkinson, The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews

7. HIV/Aids & other major diseases There are 8.8 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) a year with some 5,500 people dying every day There are almost 300 million cases of acute malaria each year – of which more than a million are fatal. Some 90 per cent of the burden falls on tropical Africa An estimated 250,000 to 350,000 deaths were averted in 2004 because of expanded access to HIV treatment

8. HIV/Aids & other major diseases “Baptist leaders are breaking the silence around HIV and speaking out in their communities. They are taking a critical look at how HIV has profoundly changed the world, re-evaluating theology and asking tough questions about how we may be failing in our teaching about sexuality, compassion and care.” Sally Smith, UNAids

9. Challenge for evangelism Only three per cent of mission personnel work in countries defined as unreached Nearly 400 million people live in a culture where there is no witnessing church An estimated 60 per cent (1.2 billion) of Christians are nominal and non-practising

10. Challenge for evangelism “From one perspective, things don’t look too bad. Out of some 6.1 billion in the world, about one-third are Christian. That’s far more than any other single faith system. But it’s misleading, for it includes anyone and everyone who could come under a heading of ‘Christian’, no matter how nominal or absent any faith.” Alistair Brown, BMS World Mission General Director

11. What next? Some key websites… Stop Climate Chaos www.stopclimatechaos.orgwww.stopclimatechaos.org The Guardian special report – Terrorism threat to Britain www.guardian.co.uk/terrorismwww.guardian.co.uk/terrorism UNAids www.unaids.orgwww.unaids.org Operation World www.gmi.org/owwww.gmi.org/ow