I made a transcript of the video clip for those of you who cannot view it (there was one word he said that I couldn't understand though):
"Greetings from a very posh hotel room somewhere in London. Ahh...I don't want to spoil your festival, and you certainly don't need to hear another preacher, but I went to Africa recently, and there's some facts I'd like to share with you. Some of you may know these, some of you may not, but they are still mind-blowing. 25 million people in Africa now have HIV. Think about that...25 million people in Africa are HIV positive. 13 million children are orphans because their parents have died from AIDS. And this figure is expected to double by the end of the decade. Today...this very day...5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. Today...in childbirth...1,400 African mothers will pass on HIV to their newborns. If this isn't an emergency, what is? We're supposed to love our neighbor. The Bible tells us to love our neighbor. Common sense should tell us to love our neighbor. Well, we're not...we really are not. God is not looking for (???), God is looking for action. Africa is America's neighbor. Africa is Europe's neighbor. But I am telling you, we are largely ignoring these people in their condition. There is a growing movement for Jubilee...I love that word...there's a growing movement for Jubilee in the United States. We do need to drop the debt and end the ridiculous situation where today's generations in the poorest countries have to spend what little they have paying back old loans, rather than investing in health and education and in clean water. All rich countries need to increase development assistance to fight AIDS and poverty in Africa. This is not about throwing money away but about using our national wealth to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world. There are 2300...2300...verses of scripture pertaining to the poor. History will judge us on how we deal with this crisis; God will judge us harder on how we deal with this crisis. If we all raise our voices...if we can all raise our politicians from their sleep around the world...and get them to respond, there might be a chance...there really might be a chance. We really need to make this a priority."
at the factoids
I really hope he's able to convince the big politicians to help. 
He is GORGEOUS!!!!! 
I love how he's not like a lot of celebrities who don't give a crap about the rest of the world. He makes me so jealous though because I can't do half of what he does in the world. I just don't have that kind of time, opportunity, or money. Oh well, he can do it for me, right? 
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