by John Freund, CM | Jul 22, 2010 | Vincentian Family
The exploitation of women and patriarchy are realities in the Indian Church as much as they are part of Indian society, says Nazareth Sister Shalini D’Souza. The 71-year-old Indian nun, who formerly headed her Kentucky-based congregation of Sisters of Charity of...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 21, 2010 | News
Concerned that currently 80 million Europeans live in poverty 20 senior figures from Christian, Jewish, Muslim religions as well as from the Sikh and Hindu communities met in Brussels to discuss effective measures to combat poverty and social exclusion. Rome...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2010 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A 60 second video from the United States Conference of Bishops remind us that 13 million or one out of 6 kids in the USA struggle to hang on to the poverty line defined as $22,050 for a family of 4. And shocking as that is, in the world at large every second child or ...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 13, 2010 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
With so many policy debates mired in partisan politics, the announcement last week by the U.S. Census Bureau that it plans to develop a supplemental poverty measure and then open it to public scrutiny is something both Republicans and Democrats can agree...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 5, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to an article in Business week they’re as important as smoking, obesity when it comes to health.
