Tag: Poverty
The pearl of great price
Solomon wanted wisdom, not for himself but to serve the people. The merchant simply wanted to have this pearl.
Over 20M ‘economically insecure’ women under Marcos Jr.’s first year, group...
Women are subjected to state violence with the government’s anti-terror laws, which CWR claimed targets human rights defenders
UN report shows 402 million Asian suffer from hunger
Asia, especially the southern subregion, struggled to significantly reduce moderate and severe food insecurity between 2021 and 2022
SWS: Filipino families self-rated as ‘Poor’ steady at 51% since December
The estimated numbers of Self-Rated Poor families are 14 million in March 2023 and 12.9 million in December 2022
Practice family planning vs poverty, Vice President Sara tells newlyweds
Duterte recalled how she promoted family planning in Davao City to address problems on uncontrolled pregnancies
9 richest Filipinos have more wealth than half of Philippine population,...
The poor are unable to recover from back-to-back crises as many continue to suffer from the effects of the pandemic
The New Year 2023, more poor than ever, gov’t says
There is always hope for the future. The Filipino is never without it, no matter how unrealistic.
Survey says 30% of Filipinos claim quality of life got better...
Up to 29 percent of the survey’s respondents, however, said their quality of life got worse, while 41% said it was the same
Street life: Manila’s homeless find shelter in pushcarts
Many have come from the provinces in search of work that did not materialize or were forced from their homes by domestic abuse
‘Synodal way’ of the Church of the poor
The Church must not fail, to embrace human suffering as its own, as Jesus did, assuming humanity as integral in his incarnation