Vatican City, Jun 14, 2022: Pope Francis said this week that no Christian is exempt from aiding the poor. In his message for the 2022 World Day of the Poor, published on June 14, the pope said that the worst thing that can happen to a Christian community is toContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Feb 17, 2022: I remember a true story shared by a religious nun about when she was taking a class on the vow of poverty during an interreligious novitiate formation program in the Philippines. The story goes like this: Once a young boy rang the bellContinue Reading
Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of Indians in the middle class, or those earning between $10 andContinue Reading
Vatican City: Coronavirus restrictions have forced the Vatican to scale down Nov. 14 commemoration of the World Day of the Poor, a Vatican archbishop said Nov. 12. Speaking at a press conference Nov. 12, Archbishop Rino Fisichella said that the pope would not be able to host a lunch forContinue Reading
More than one billion children live in countries hit by poverty and 240 million in countries affected by conflict and fragility.Continue Reading
The women had pleaded with villagers to help them cremate their motherContinue Reading
Keonjhar: In a heart-wrenching tale of poverty from a mineral-rich region of Odisha, a widow was forced to pawn her two minor sons for money to perform the last rites of her husband in Champua. Her tragic story came to light on Wednesday after block development officer S Nayak andContinue Reading
The Gumla district administration will probe the matterContinue Reading
Vatican City – After several days of rain and dreary weather that has not yet cleared, the Vatican’s papal almoner has distributed 300 umbrellas to homeless persons around Rome on behalf of Pope Francis. Italian news agency ANSA reports that the almoner, Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, handed out the umbrellas toContinue Reading
Vatican City – Pope Francis has rejected the “simplistic” belief that large families are among the causes of poverty, stressing that economic systems which create a culture of waste are to blame. “Families know they are essential to the life of society,” the Pope said Jan. 21 during his firstContinue Reading
