by Beth | Jul 4, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
DAROU SALAM DIOUF, Senegal – More than 1.1 billion people in developing countries wake up each morning faced with the same riddle of survival, forced to find some way to get by, like Mbaye, on less than $1 per day.Surviving on one dollar a day Sub-Saharan Africa...
by Beth | Jul 3, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to the Center for Disease Control, “In several instances over the past decade, malaria incidence in Canada as a whole, or in individual provinces, reached epidemic levels.”Why some were not immediately identified and why no comprehensive analysis...
by Beth | Jun 28, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”His son John Eisenhower writes, “The most fundamental conviction...
by Beth | Jun 25, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
June 20, 2004 – The poverty rate in the United States has risen over the past two years. Over 34.6 million people in the United States–one out of every eight Americans–are poor according to the official government definition. This is 12.1% of our...
by Beth | Jun 21, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A gently provocative book by Patrick McCormick filled with insights into hunger, eating and the connection between the Eucharist and Justice.It would be a fine book to use in conjunction with any hunger campaign projects or just by itself. Visit Barnes and Noble or...
by Beth | Jun 19, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
NEW YORK, JUNE 19, 2004 (Zenit.org).- How to cope with ever-increasing numbers of migrants is a topic being examined both by international organizations and the Church. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Last Dec. 9 established a Global Commission on International...
