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| expenses = Program Services: Support Activities: Total Expenses: | motto = Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name | website = | footnotes = }} Compassion International is a Christian child sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world. Compassion International, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, functions in 26 countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Haiti, Kenya and India. The organization provides aid to more than 1,700,000 children. As of 2014, the chairman of the board is Karen Kemps Wesolowski, and Santiago Mellado is the President and CEO. ==History== The Everett Swanson Evangelistic Association was founded in 1952 by The Reverend Everett Swanson to help children orphaned by war in South Korea. He traveled there to preach the gospel to the troops of the army but during his visit he saw children orphaned by the war. In 1953, he began to raise funds and the next year he developed sponsorship programs to help support orphans for a few dollars a month. The name of the association changed to Compassion in 1963, inspired by Jesus' words "I have compassion on the multitude. I will not send them away hungry" (Matthew 15.32). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Compassion International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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