by John Freund, CM | Jul 13, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Video  describing how micro finance is a tool of systemic change. Grameen Foundation has been working across the globe to help them pull themselves from poverty by starting, sustaining or expand tiny businesses. Breaking Through gives you a glimpse of what this has...
by annaread | Jul 11, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
About the impact of bottled water on the environment, allwater.org says: The bottled water industry causes a severe strain on the environment, but solutions to this environmental damage significantly lessen the quality of water in the bottles. Not quite the effect...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 10, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Biofuels are not clean and green. Biofuels will result in deforestation. Biofuels will not bring rural development. Biofuels will cause hunger. Today’s International Herald Tribune, with more than one million political and influential subscribers...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 7, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
SYDNEY, July 7, 2007 (smh.com.au): The St Vincent de Paul Society will give its employees a $30-a-week pay rise because it regards the $10.26 awarded by the Australian Fair Pay Commission this week as inadequate. The society’s state president, John...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 5, 2007 | Church, Justice and Peace
John Allen writes…Catholic environmentalism these days seems to be an instinct in search of a cause. One can find impressive traces of awareness, from John Paul II’s 1990 call for “ecological conversion,” to grass-roots initiatives such as the...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 4, 2007 | Church, Justice and Peace
GENEVA, JULY 3, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The globalization of the economy and communication should be matched by the globalization of human rights, says the Holy See. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi made this comment in a recent address to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva....