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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
There’ve been regular reports of misbehaviour at Kāinga Ora properties. This sets in motion a prejudicial view of social housing tenants and the estates in which they live. The expectation from neighbours who are disturbed by poor behaviour is that Kāinga Ora, or the police, or “government” in general, should “crack down hard” on those Read more
Tags: Community development, Food security, Intentional communities, Kainga Ora, Poverty
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Build communities, not just houses
Monday, March 11th, 2024
Food charities say they have seen a big increase in people needing food parcels. One says people even fight for food outside community pantries. National poverty critical St Vincent de Paul’s Hamilton manager, Mike Rolton (pictured), says New Zealand is currently experiencing poverty on a level unknown in modern times. “Six years ago we gave Read more
Tags: Child Poverty Action Group, Food parcels, Poverty, St Vincent de Paul Hamilton, Vinnies
Posted in New Zealand | Comments Off on Vinnies helping ever more people with food parcels
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Are you wondering what to fast from this Lent – sweets. alcohol, or just simply eating less? This kind of fasting has its place. However, if you want to discover what fasting is especially meant to achieve, fast in a way that will bring about a holy change; change for the better for you, change Read more
Tags: Climate Change, Human Trafficking, Lent, Lenten fast, Poverty, War
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on A Lent fast that makes a difference
Monday, December 4th, 2023
In a wide-ranging message to COP28 delegates, Pope Francis added his voice to calls for an end to fossil fuels and for “debt forgiveness” for poorer countries hit by climate change. As illness prevented Francis from attending COP28, he deputed Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin (pictured) to deliver his speech. Francis, who has made Read more
Tags: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), Climate Change, Climate debt forgiveness, COP, COP28, Fossil fuels, Pope Francis, Poverty
Posted in World | Comments Off on Pope: COP28 – scrap fossil fuels, protect poor
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
In recent days the home secretary of the UK, Suella Braverman, has described rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” while defending her decision to restrict the use of tents by homeless people on the streets of Britain. More than that, it is rumored that charitable organisations that supply tents to the homeless might themselves be Read more
Tags: homelessness, Poverty
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Where shall I lay my head?
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
In a significant move, the NZ Catholic bishops are promoting open and informed life discussion through a modernised and broadened document, Te Kahu o te Ora – A Consistent Ethic of Life. The modernisation seeks to fill a twenty-six-year gap and reflect some of the modern challenges. Dr John Kleinsman, director of the NZ Catholic Read more
Tags: A Consistent Ethic of Life, Abuse, AI, Artificial intelligence, Beginning of life, Bishop Steve Lowe, Corrections, creation, Discrimination, end of life, Information Technology, Integrity, John Kleinsman, Justice, Nathaniel Centre, NZ Catholic bishops, Peace, Poverty, Sexual abuse, Te Kahu o te Ora, War
Posted in Great reads, New Zealand | Comments Off on NZ Catholic bishops promote open informed life discussions
Thursday, September 14th, 2023
The recent Women’s Football World Cup, with its acting-out of the Enlightenment values of liberty, equality and fraternity, was a delightful patch of blue sky among more ominous dark clouds. The fires and floods in the Northern Hemisphere have emphasised the threat of climate change to people’s lives throughout the world. They foreshadow the future. Read more
Tags: Climate Change, Economy, Environment, Future generations, Human relationshios, Migration, Pope Francis, Poverty, Social justice
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Rethinking social justice
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
Junaid Javed, a Catholic living in Pakistan, was looking forward to his appointment to collect a visa to travel to World Youth Day – WYD – with his wife, Sunaina. But to his dismay, the Portuguese embassy returned his passport without a visa July 24, making him one of a rising number of people prevented Read more
Tags: Discrimination, Poverty, World Youth Day
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on WYD for rich people only!
Monday, July 24th, 2023
Last Thursday Chris Bishop MP asked the Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment about people sleeping in cars. It’s almost impossible to know, exactly, how many people sleep in cars. “None”, would be the best answer. But this isn’t a “best answer” world. One measure is how many people on the Housing Register (essentially Read more
Tags: Crime, Crime-Poverty link, homelessness, Politics, Poverty
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Top Story | Comments Off on The politics of poverty
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
An Auckland mother says the struggle to provide her kids with the most basic items such as food and clothing is taking a toll on her mental health. As food inflation hits a 36-year high and fuel costs go back up, working families are having to juggle between bills, while kids are going to school Read more
Tags: KidsCan, Mental Health, Poverty
Posted in New Zealand, News Shorts | Comments Off on ‘Worst it’s ever been’ – KidsCan says need for families, children at all-time high