Tag: Poverty

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”

In the southern Philippines, teachers have to travel by boat and trudge mountains to distribute learning materials

A new survey shows a record-high hunger incidence of 30.7 percent — the highest rate since the previous peak of 23.8 percent in 2012

A system of injustice had propped up the elite of Negros’ monocrop economy for more than a century