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Volunteers build temporary housing for refugees

DALLAS (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry asked for disaster relief assistance from the federal government on Friday for drought-stricken farmers across the state. Parts of south and central Texas including the ranch lands around San Antonio and the state capitol Austin are suffering from their most severe drought on record, exacerbating the woes of the state's cattle industry already been laid low by the country's deepening recession. Extreme drought conditions also exist across many other areas of the parched state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. "Governor Rick Perry today requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture provide disaster...

The September 01, 2005 Press Release by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) -- in which the massive scope of the emergency responses to stricken areas and individuals in the U.S. after Hurricane Katrina are explained in details that our mainstream media generalizes over... READ THE FULL REPORT (restricted in reprint elsewhere, thus, you have to go read the information where it's published), and notice that, specifically, the Southern Baptist Convention ("SBC") has been and is engaged in feeding thousands of meals daily. And that's just for starters.