Tag: Poverty

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

If we wish to realize the kingdom of God, then we must start understanding our collective culpability for the poverty of the marginalized

Poverty has been and has always been inflicted upon those who have the least resistance

'The truth remains that a markedly big number of people are destitute, hungry, sick — all arguments to the contrary notwithstanding'

The survey revealed that only eight percent of the respondents said that life became better, while 12 percent said life stayed the same.

Thousands of jeepney drivers lost their source of living after the government prevented them from going back to the streets

Envoy accuses Malaysian govt of ‘statistical sleight of hand’ in claiming it has a poverty rate of 0.4 percent