by Beth | Nov 8, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Pope Benedict yesterday purchased the first bond issued by the British government to help fund immunisation programs for children in the developing world as the Vatican renews its call to cancel poor countries’ debt. The Catholic News Agency reports that...
by Beth | Oct 27, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Education for Justice has produced a short 2 page fact sheet on the issue of a living wage.It can be downloaded. Of interest to famvin subscribers is the fac the Blessed Frederic proposed a “natural wage” ssome 50 years before Rerum Novarum, the first ot...
by Beth | Oct 27, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The St Vincent de Paul Society has warned that credit card customers who pay the minimum on their bills end up paying outrageously high interest rates. The charity also criticised the prominence given on credit card bills to the minimum payment credit customers must...
by Beth | Oct 19, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Often, International Action to Combat Hunger Ignores the Human Factor” VATICAN CITY, OCT. 19, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is the message Benedict XVI sent to Jacques Diouf, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, on the occasion of...
by Beth | Oct 19, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 19, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says that the fight against world hunger calls for the recovery of the genuine values of agricultural work, with the human person as the protagonist. The Pope stressed the importance of the family and of...
by Beth | Oct 16, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY falls on 17 October 2006. The theme of the Day this year is “Working Together out of Poverty”. Among the many ceremonies on 17 October around the world, there will be a commemoration ceremony at UN...
