In this Faith and Justice Forum program, Ben Urmston, SJ, discusses Christian Life Communities (CLC) in East Africa as well as Father Terry Charlton's work he has conducted there. Father Charlton discusses the overall purpose of Christian Life Communities, their theology, especially its incorporation of Jesuit theology, and mission work across more than sixty countries. Thereafter, he discusses his view on the spiritual exercises and good and evil. Father Charlton proceeds to then tell of his experiences in Nairobi, especially, of the ways in which people are able to have social and moral discourse on certain matters. Father Charlton tells of his many experiences in working with and seeing poverty, street children, orphans, and suffering as well, along with his work with CLC in doing social work. This interview was recorded between July 1994 and 1998. 
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Terry Charlton, SJ, interview

In this program, Ben Urmston, SJ, interviews Dr. Joseph Collins concerning his work for the Food First Institute which works towards not only building awareness of child hunger and starvation in the third world, but also his mission work in countries such as Chile and the Philippines. Dr. Collins recounts his early experiences as a Cincinnati native and mission work during his summers in high school at St. Xavier High School. He further discusses how such work has been a profound influence in his own life that has driven him in his life work for the Food First Institute and his mission work. Thereafter, Dr. Collins talks with Father Urmston about some of the political, land-holding, and economic issues causing the great poverty and hunger in the Philippines. Dr. Collins provides a depiction of the land problems, agrarian issues, and societal problems facing Philippine peoples that needs to be redressed. The interview was recorded in the latter half of 1988.

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Joseph Collins interview

In this program, Ben Urmston, SJ, interviews Scott Lewis, Regional Organizer of Bread for the World, and Debbie Mays, District Coordinator of Bread for the World. They discuss political and economic burdens facing them, especially at a Congressional level with budgets not allocating enough towards foreign aid for alleviating hunger. Specifically, Mays references Representative Tony Hall who, among other Congress members, sought to reinstate the Congressional Hunger Committee in working towards ending world hunger. The interview was recorded around 1993.

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Scott Lewis and Debbie Mays interview

In this program Fr. Ben Urmston, SJ, interviews Rev. Lubomir Mirejovsky, a Presbyterian minister from Prague, Czech Republic and the former Secretary General of the Christian Peace Service. Fr. Urmston and Reverend Mirejovsky discuss the nature of world peacekeeping, specifically its historical, philosophical development such as initially proposed by Bishop John Amos Comenius. Thereafter, Reverend Mirejovsky discusses the development of international peacekeeping, such as through the United Nations, especially with respect to Czech efforts in that development. The interview was recorded in early 2000 and aired on WVXU-FM as a Faith and Justice Forum program sponsored as a public service by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Office of Social Action and World Peace and Xavier University. This interview is being made available by Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) for educational or personal research use only in accordance with US copyright laws.

Lubomir Mirejovsky interview

In this program, Fr. Ben Urmston, SJ, talks to Bishop Caesar Mazzolari about his experiences working for his parish in the Sudan, especially with the impoverished and marginalized in the midst of the Civil War. Bishop Mazzolari discusses the issue of slavery facing not only the Sudan, but also in parts of his own parish in the Sudan in addition to the problems imposed upon many Sudanese by the regime currently in power. For him, the cure to many of the problems in the Sudan, like slavery, is great exposure of the problem to the world in order to seek peace. Mazzolari discusses how the current regime is oppressive. Thereafter, he discusses the war crimes being committed in the Sudan amidst the Civil War, such as through the use of chemical and biological weapons in addition to land mines and plastic explosives. He states that the current regime of Sudan is seeking to exterminate the South Sudanese in order to exploit their petroleum deposits. The two then discuss the issues facing the future of the conflict, specifically of low awareness of the problem and lack of international oversight as well, in addition to the biological crimes being committed indiscriminately such as the poisoning of the Nile River.  Bishop Mazzolari then tells of how urgently experts are needed in the Sudan in order to mitigate the conflict and bring about a resolution to the needless bloodshed and violence being inflicted.

The interview was recorded after October 1998 and aired on WVXU-FM as a Faith and Justice Forum program sponsored as a public service by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Office of Social Action and World Peace and Xavier University. This interview is being made available by Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) for educational or personal research use only in accordance with US copyright laws.

Caesar Mazzolari interview

In this program, Fr. Ben Urmston, SJ, and Fr. Albert Fritsch, SJ, discuss their views on the environment and natural resources. Fr. Urmston asks Fr. Fritschabout his work and achievements for the Public Interest Appalachian Center for Science. Fr. Fritsch discusses how he has worked with them in directing his research towards making cost-effective and environmentally friendly items for the poor. The poor, he contends, will be the ones who most prominently work to change the Earth for the better. His work and research with the Appalachian Center for Science has included research into cheap, renewable energy source for housing and dry-compost toilets. He thoroughly discusses his research and research methods. He then addresses his frustration with the Tennessee Valley Authority and their wish to establish a nuclear power plant because nuclear energy is not as clean as people believe, according to him, on account of the great cost in coal energy used to refine the Uranium. He then addresses the tobacco industry in Appalachia, how the market for the farmers is decreasing, and how tobacco is currently predominantly grown as a "dirty crop" with many fertilizers and chemicals. The two proceed to discuss, among other topics, consumerism in American society.

This program aired around 1994 as an episode of the Faith and Justice Forum sponsored by sponsored as a public service by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Office of Social Action and World Peace and Xavier University. This interview is being made available by Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) for educational or personal research use only in accordance with US copyright laws.

Albert Fritsch interview

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