#Poverty

Poverty: Caritas and Eurodiaconia, call on EU and governments to “invest in not-for-profit social services providers”

Poverty: requests for help from Caritas and Eurodiaconia up by 40% in Europe. Need for “immediate and targeted support” for low-income people

Poverty: Community of Sant’Egidio, almost 10% of Italians in need. Record numbers of meals and aid parcels distributed as a result of the pandemic

Today, International Volunteer Day, the Community of Sant’Egidio presented in Rome the latest edition of the guidebook “Where to eat,…

Syria: Fr. Alsabagh (Nazareth), “like a ball that is being kicked around”

The 15th Day of volunteers and associations in the Holy Land was held November 5 in Rome. Speakers included Father…

United Kingdom: Catholic and Anglican Advent initiatives. The diocese of Salford gets on to help poorer families

France: Secours-Catholique publishes annual report. Poverty caused by pandemic “could become chronic”

Amid blackouts and missiles at the border, Moldova grapples with the “collateral damage” of the war in Ukraine

Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu: “Every bomb falling on Ukraine is also affecting Moldova and our people. We call on Russia…

UK: “Warm Welcome” campaign, community response to energy poverty. 16.4 million people will be cold

Beccegato (Caritas): “Poverty is not only an economic problem. It is a multi-dimensional phenomenon”

“On this Day we are urged ‘not to stand idly by, not to remain indifferent, for it is always possible…

Poverty: Caritas, 6 out of 10 beneficiaries are the product of “intergenerational poverty.” People assisted on the rise (+7.7%)

Caritas centres and services distributed almost 1.5 million aid packages from 192 diocesan Caritas in 2021. At least 227,556 people…

Council of Europe: Mijatovic, “address poverty systematically, including by pursuing fiscal policies based on human rights”