by Beth | Mar 4, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
n the fall of 2002, we, Saint Mary’s Community of Daughters of Charity in Saginaw, Michigan, received a letter from our Provincial, Sr. Catherine Madigan, DC, asking us to participate in the struggle against hunger through the Vincentian family initiative, the...
by Beth | Jan 28, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
VATICAN CITY, JAN. 27, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II praised the work of the U.N. World Food Program and urged that the problem of hunger be addressed through “joint efforts.””The complexities of our modern era are such that the joint commitment...
by Beth | Jan 3, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Does anyone know where to find this text?…. Oct. 24, 1996 (CWNews.com) VATICAN (CWN) — The Pontifical Council Cor Unum today published a long-awaited Vatican document on world hunger. The document, entitled Hunger in the World: A Challenge for All, was...
by Beth | Nov 26, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Tonight, nearly 850 million people will go to bed hungry, the overwhelming majority in the developing nations of Africa and Asia. That is the depressingly familiar central fact about world hunger, highlighted again by the United Nations’ Food and...
by Beth | Nov 4, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
November 16 – 22 National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Co-sponsored by National Coalition for the Homeless and National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness. Each year, one week before Thanksgiving, National Coalition for the Homeless...