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3 in 5 children in Middle East suffering severe food poverty‍

3 in 5 children in the Middle East and North Africa, 34 million in total, are living with severe food poverty. That’s according to a new report by UNICEF entitled Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood, which analyses the consequences and causes of food deprivation among th

Climate change exacerbates poverty in vulnerable Asian communities, says Gariguez

“Climate change hits hardest at the poorest communities, fundamentally because they lack the resources to adapt,” said Fr. Edwin A. Gariguez, social action director of the Apo-stolic Vicariate of Calapan, south of Manila. Gariguez was the keynote speaker at the Caritas Asia Regional Conference, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 11, attended by […]

Christian communities wishing Buddhists well for Vesak

As Buddhists today mark the start of Vesak, their most important holy day, some Christian leaders in Southeast Asia have sent messages of good wishes as a way to promote interfaith dialogue. The Association of Churches of Sarawak (ACS) extended its best wishes to the Buddhist community in the Malaysian state and throughout the Southeast […]

Vatican official: Hundreds of millions of Christians ‘face high levels of persecution’

“More than 365 million Christians, approximately 1 in 7, face high levels of persecution for their faith,” Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, said at a conference on religious freedom held in Rome. The conference, titled “Religious Freedom and Integral Human Development: A New Global Platform,” was jointly […]

Ukrainian priest: We are tired and losing hope

“As long as a person is alive, there is always hope, a desire to see things change for the better and believe that we can make a difference.” Speaking to Vatican News, Father Roman Ostrovskyy, Vice-Rector of the Greek-Catholic seminary in Kyiv, shares his reflections on the Bull “Spes non confundit,” with which Pope Francis […]

Pope to write document on Sacred Heart for a world that ‘has lost its heart’

Pope Francis has announced he is pre-paring to write a document dedicated to that devotion to “illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal, but also to say some-thing significant to a world that seems to have lost its heart.” Speaking during the weekly General Audience – his first in June, the month dedicated to the Sacred […]