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• Were Making Strides against Global Poverty

  
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  About eight weeks ago the World Bank said preliminary estimates for 2010 showed that the world’s extreme poverty rate — people living below $1.25 a day — had fallen to less than half of its 1990 value. Did you get that? Less than half!  And some Christian organizations are joining together to make sure that ...
  5 days ago

• Chaleston, SC Bishop: Helping the Poor Helps Us All

  
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  Bishop Robert Guglielmone of the Diocese of Charleston, S.C., has an op-ed in this morning’s edition of the Post and Courier urging Congress to preserve poverty-focused international assistance in the federal budget. I do not envy our elected officials these days. They are faced with many difficult choices, with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Make Peace for our Sudanese Brothers and Sisters a Priority

  
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  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to China for high level meetings this week and the Administration has signaled that the increasing violence between Sudan and South Sudan may be on the agenda. Thanks in part to your advocacy, President Obama recently urged the people of Sudan and South Sudan “to walk ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microfinance’s odd couple

  
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  Like politics, poverty alleviation makes strange bedfellows. CARE is one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations, formed in the aftermath of World War II to deliver relief to a battered Europe.  (CARE then stood for Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. Who knew?) Mennonites are a Christian, ...
  3 weeks ago

• To Foster Food Security Support Women’s Land Rights

  
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  Millions of people across the world suffer from food insecurity, but a growing body of evidence is uncovering one way to address this problem: land rights. Take India, for example. A preliminary study of a land purchase program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, which provided beneficiaries with plots of land of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kony and the iPod generation

  
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  I woke up on March the 7 th to see many Facebook friends had shared a link-  ‘Stop Kony 2012’- an appeal to capture ‘Joseph Kony’, leader of a rebel movement in Central Africa who has been guilty of abducting children and using them as soldiers. I liked I. I shared it. I was moved by the video. Since then, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the “New” Tuberculosis

  
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  Product DescriptionA global health catastrophe threatens to undermine all efforts to eradicate poverty and human suffering.The dramatic increase since the 1980s in the global prevalence of tuberculosis, a disease destined as recently as thirty years ago for complete eradication, is a story of medical failure. A ...
  3 weeks ago

• On cart: Economy, sports, food & drama (IANS books this week)

  
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  New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Exercise the intellect with an inspiring cache of books this weekend. Browse with IANS…1.Book: “The Blue Sweater”; Written by Jacqueline Novogratz; Published by Harper Collins-India; Priced Rs.399 (India Edition)The book is the inspiring story of a woman, who gave up a career in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Support the Farm Bill Today

  
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  Ensure our nation feeds the hungry, preserves God’s creation, supports small family farmers and rural America. Take action now! If you live in the following states: Michigan, Vermont, Iowa, North Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Colorado, New York, Kansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, ...
  4 weeks ago

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