by Beth | Aug 16, 2004 | Justice and Peace
It costs nothing and is small step in giving voice to the voiceless. – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development as a number of very attractive clickable logos that people are encouraged to put on web sites in order to draw attention to some very powerful...
by Beth | Aug 12, 2004 | Justice and Peace
SYDNEY, August 13, 2004 (smh.com.au): The West, rich and getting richer, ignores the growing desperation of the poor at its peril, writes Benazir Bhutto in The Sydney Morning Herald – While the world focuses on the war against terrorism, the war against poverty...
by Beth | Aug 6, 2004 | Justice and Peace
“Let’s get the poor on our agenda because it’s on God’s mind,” … “If you ever expect to get a reservation in heaven, you will have to have a letter of recommendation from the poor to get in.”For the full report on the Boston meeting of “Let Justice...
by Beth | Jul 28, 2004 | Justice and Peace
The National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice ha posted notice of a series of resources useful for celebrating Labor Day in the USA The packet includes a Labor Day Litany Speaking up for the Poor and a Worker Justice Quiz in bulletin insert format. Also...
by Beth | Jul 24, 2004 | Justice and Peace
Troops from the North of Sudan are engaging in ethnic cleansing against the people of in the Western Darfur region. They are gang-raping and abducting girls as young as eight years of age and women as old as 80, systematically killing, torturing, or using them as sex...
by Beth | Jul 24, 2004 | Justice and Peace
A recent (July 9, 2004) Vatican seminar brought together 100 representatives from the Church, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the financial world to focus on “Poverty and Globalization: Funding Development and the Millennium’s Development...
