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Shining marble floors and ivory-colored walls are set off by African mahogany trim.

Fine Swarovski crystal makes up chandeliers that bathe rooms in a lightness. Thick wool rugs, one custom-made in China for an expanded main entryway, absorb the excess sound.

“If you did a major renovation on your house and invited me over I probably wouldn’t say 'how much did you spend on it,'" Walker says. "But that’s just a church policy. We’ve decided rather than focus on the dollar amount we’d rather focus on the beauty of the temple and what it’s used for and the purposes behind it.”

(WNN/WFP) Rome, ITALY: Nearly 870 million people, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012, according to the new UN hunger report released today. The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 (SOFI), jointly published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), presents better estimates of chronic undernourishment based on an improved methodology and data for the last two decades.
The vast majority of the hungry, 852 million, live in developing countries — around 15 percent of their population — while 16 million people are undernourished in developed countries.
The global number of hungry people declined by 132 million between 1990-92 and 2010-12, or from 18.6 percent to 12.5 percent of the world’s population, and from 23.2 percent to 14.9 percent in developing countries – putting the MDG target within reach if adequate, appropriate actions are taken.
The number of hungry declined more sharply between 1990 and 2007 than previously believed. Since 2007-2008, however, global progress in reducing hunger has slowed and leveled off.
“In today’s world of unprecedented technical and economic opportunities, we find it entirely unacceptable that more than 100 million children under five are underweight, and therefore unable to realize their full human and socio-economic potential, and that childhood malnutrition is a cause of death for more than 2.5 million children every year,” say José Graziano da Silva, Kanayo F. Nwanze and Ertharin Cousin, respectively the Heads of FAO, IFAD and WFP, in a foreword to the report.
“We note with particular concern that the recovery of the world economy from the recent global financial crisis remains fragile. We nonetheless appeal to the international community to make extra efforts to assist the poorest in realizing their basic human right to adequate food. The world has the knowledge and the means to eliminate all forms of food insecurity and malnutrition,” they add.

Drifting wrote:I am having a hard time reconciling this level of expenditure, by God's one true Church, on a building whilst kids in Africa are starving .

SteelHead wrote:THE Book of Mormon
CHAPTER 8
37 For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.

Albion wrote:I think regardless of more funds, less funds or the same funds his point is that the unfortunate could be helped if the money had been spent in their direction. I do not offer this as a criticism necessarily but as an observation of what is reality.

subgenius wrote:

Albion wrote:I think regardless of more funds, less funds or the same funds his point is that the unfortunate could be helped if the money had been spent in their direction. I do not offer this as a criticism necessarily but as an observation of what is reality.

not a "reality" conclusion...because it assumes the funds would have available without temple expenditures....which is my question.
Consider Drifting's favorite charity UNICEF...they hold hold rather lavish fundraisers - would that money not be better spent on food for Africa's children?