Tag: Poverty

St. Francis was not in love with pain itself, but with our Lord who loved and suffered for him

Pollster Social Weather Stations released the result of a survey that shows about 4.2 million Filipino families experienced hunger in May

Pope Francis assured the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization of Church support in fighting hunger and its causes

Pope Francis said the world needs “a farsighted social model capable of countering the new forms of poverty that are now sweeping the world"

"The poor, always and everywhere, evangelize us, because they enable us to discover in new ways the true face of the Father"

Millions of children live in a precarious situation, many of them will never enter the gates of a school again

The colorful festivities in Manila’s Chinatown, the oldest in the world, was gone. The dragon and lion dancers were nowhere to be seen.

Being a farmer in the Philippines is becoming more difficult as the country faces the threats of the pandemic, climate change, and hunger

Poverty is a disease crueler than COVID-19, villager says

Pope Francis noted that the pandemic has made us “all the more aware of the presence of the poor in our midst and their need for help”