Food cannot be used as ‘bargaining chip,’ pope says
The international community can no longer ignore the cries of the poor and the hungry who fall victim to food loss and waste, Pope Francis said.
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by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Catholic News Service, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food insecurity, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, World hunger | 0 |
The international community can no longer ignore the cries of the poor and the hungry who fall victim to food loss and waste, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Africa, Church in Africa, Climate change, food insecurity, immigrants and refugees, Jesuit Refugee Service, lead, News | 0 |
According to the United Nations, at least 50 million people in East Africa will face acute food insecurity this year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, economy, Finances, food insecurity, News | 0 |
With high inflation driving rising food prices, Elma Lou Ortiz hardly thinks it’s surprising that more people are showing up at the food pantry operated by Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi in Texas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Africa, CAFOD, Church in UK and Ireland, England, food insecurity, lead, News | 0 |
Over 26 million people in Africa will face a food crisis this year due to poor harvests and drought conditions in many parts of the continent.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Africa, Caritas Internationalis, Church in Africa, food insecurity, lead, News, Sahel, World hunger | 0 |
Africa is facing a looming food crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, since the continent imported 44 percent of its wheat from the two countries in the period from 2018 to 2020.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 16, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, children, Church in the US, food insecurity, Homelessness, News, Poverty, Taxes, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. Congress | 0 |
A few weeks before Christmas, Jessica Moreno and her three kids were able to move from her parents’ home in Wood Dale, Illinois, outside of Chicago, to their own apartment a few blocks away.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Charities, Church in the US, Food, food insecurity, Native Americans, Nebraska, News | 0 |
Since June, a new mobile food pantry run by Catholic Charities in Omaha has been a blessing to residents of Macy and Walthill, two Thurston County communities located on the Omaha Indian Reservation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Bill Brady, food insecurity, Lenten forum, Mary Kristjanson, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
Pandemic-driven food insecurity among young people in Minnesota — and what people can do to help alleviate the crisis — will be the focus of a Zoom videoconference Feb. 24 at Corpus Christi in Roseville.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2020 | Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, food insecurity, Hunger, News | 0 |
Nearly 26 million people said they did not have enough food at least some of the time during late October and early November, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 15, 2020 | Archbishop Charles Gordon, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Food, food insecurity, News, Trinidad and Tobago | 0 |
Archbishop Jason Gordon of Port of Spain has been calling on people to grow more food in recent months. His encouragement has been particularly urgent following widespread job losses in Trinidad beginning with a state-ordered lockdown in March in response to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Archdiocese of Washington, Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity, Hunger, News | 0 |
When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the Washington area in mid-March, shuttering many local restaurants and businesses, the lines at a weekly food pantry sponsored by the Spanish Catholic Center immediately jumped from about 60 people to hundreds.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Bishop José Bonello, Church in the Americas, Church in the US, COVID-19, Diocese of Juticalpa, food insecurity, Honduras, Laudato Si, lead, News, Olancho Aid Foundation, Pope Francis, Susan Nedza | 0 |
A U.S. backed foundation in partnering with a Catholic diocese in Honduras to fight food insecurity.
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