Rio Olympics are a “huge missed opportunity” to improve the lives of the country’s poorest, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (Cafod) has said. With all eyes on Brazil this summer for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cafod said that the plight of Brazil’s indigenous peoples and the Amazon should be centre stage.Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Poverty’
Young Maori: Concern for homeless at kapa Haka competition
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016Last week’s national secondary schools’ kapa haka competitions in Hawke’s Bay have shown that rangatahi are deeply concerned with politics and social issues. Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says she wishes more of her political colleagues understood te reo Maori so they could appreciate the korero coming from the stage about issues affecting their whanau, Read more
Texas Baptists feed the hungry in Spain
Friday, July 29th, 2016
Every week, Texan Baptists provide groceries to feed about 50 hungry families in Cerdanyola, Spain. The church partners with the local government to raise awareness of the ministry in the neighborhood. “The results have been humbling,” Daniel Banyuls, who has been a pastor at the Baptist Iglesia Evangelica, in Cerdanyola for the past 15 years. The Read more
Cardinal Dew’s Mountain of Mercy
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
In what Cardinal John Dew called “an act of mercy” dozens of new pairs of shoes, vouchers and socks were piled on Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral steps on Sunday. “We have asked people to ‘be an act of mercy’ and they have responded with great generosity for those who can’t afford to put shoes and Read more
100 warm and weatherproof coats for the homeless given to Auckland Diocese
Friday, July 8th, 2016
One hundred high quality coats, specially tailored to fit a wide range of sizes, have been gifted to the Diocese of Auckland for distribution to the city’s homeless. The gift comes from one of the oldest institutions of Western & Christian civilisation, the Sovereign Order of Malta, through its Sydney members. The above picture shows Read more
UN hunger and poverty data — reliable?
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
The stink is unbearable, garbage is strewn everywhere and clean water is at a premium. But the old movie theater in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh is nevertheless home to Ngong Theavy, a young mother of three. And it is one she shares. Hundreds of people live in the old cinema building, which has Read more
Shrinking resources to meet soaring demand
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
A new report from the NZ Council of Christian Social Services, NZCCSS, says there is a soaring demand being made on social service organisations. At the same time government support has shrunk, particularly in the form of food grants. Executive officer Trevor McGlinchey said social service organisations were under huge financial stress. But government funding Read more
More than 50 recently professed religious visit HART in Suva
Friday, June 17th, 2016
Last weekend a group of young men and women spent Saturday working with and talking with people in the Makoi Hart community in Suva. These young men and women are temporarily professed religious living and working in Fiji. Watch the video They come from a number of different congregations: Marist Sisters, Missionaries of the Sacred Read more
Prelate publicly scolds Argentine government over poverty
Friday, June 3rd, 2016Argentina’s president and his allies have appeared to receive a public scolding from the Archbishop of Buenos Aires over prioritisation of the poor. President Mauricio Macri heard Archbishop Mario Poli speak at the traditional May Revolution Day service at the local cathedral. The Archbishop said “Attention should be prioritised toward children and the elderly, the Read more
Is stealing food criminal when you’re destitute?
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
The highest court in Italy has ruled that a young homeless man, Roman Ostriakov, did not act unlawfully when he stole a sausage and a piece of cheese to feed himself. Instead, the court found that Ostriakov had acted out of immediate need and desperation, so his theft did not – and should not – Read more