Tag: Hunger
Why is rice so expensive while farm workers grow hungrier?
The rising cost of food affects everybody and we need to be aware that there are many processors and traders adding their mark-up to...
Where children are hungry: famine hot spots and Catholic groups that...
Large Catholic aid organizations such as Catholic Relief Services have sounded the alarm about the danger of famine for years
UN report shows 402 million Asian suffer from hunger
Asia, especially the southern subregion, struggled to significantly reduce moderate and severe food insecurity between 2021 and 2022
Rohingya refugees decry ‘devastating’ cuts to food aid
The drop has already caused hardship among the roughly one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh's overcrowded camps
3 million Filipino families experienced hunger in past three months, survey...
The figure is slightly higher than the 11.3 percent or 2.89 million families who reported the same in a survey released in October 2022
Hunger continues to plague India, Church response found wanting
In the latest 2022 Global Hunger Index, India has slipped six positions from 2021 when it was ranked 101
School gardens a lifeline for hungry Cambodian children
Remote schools in Siem Reap province use the gardens to teach pupils life skills such as cultivation and cooking
Global food crisis ‘will kill millions’ by disease, health executive warns
The knock-on effects of the food shortages mean many will die not only of starvation but from having weaker defenses against diseases
Let Jesus Christ feed the hungers of your life, Pope Francis...
“We can evaluate our Eucharistic Adoration when we take care of our neighbor like Jesus does,” the pope said on Sunday
Incidents of hunger in Philippines rise during first quarter of 2022
An estimated 3.1 million families experienced involuntary hunger, or being hungry and not having anything to eat at least once
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