Tag: Poverty

India's overall birthrate has fallen in tandem with its rising economy, but poverty and a deep-rooted bias for male heirs have kept Bihar an engine room of national population growth

Intelligent legislators and government officials must pass laws to curb advertising by the junk food industry

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

The poor are unable to recover from back-to-back crises as many continue to suffer from the effects of the pandemic

The Magi perhaps “were expecting a powerful and prodigious Messiah,” but instead they found a baby and “met God in poverty”

Thai street vendor perseveres through childhood polio and extreme poverty to find love and respect

Up to 29 percent of the survey’s respondents, however, said their quality of life got worse, while 41% said it was the same

Many have come from the provinces in search of work that did not materialize or were forced from their homes by domestic abuse

Will we in the Church have the prophetic courage to take the challenges of Pope Francis seriously?

Poverty is widespread in Laos, and is especially severe for children from the dozens of ethnic minority groups who live in rural areas