Global Solidarity

Creating a Country: Part 3

Through the activity of "Creating a Country," participants receive an overview of the main principles of Catholic social teaching, an understanding of the rights set forth in the Universal...
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Creating a Country: Part 2

Through the activity of "Creating a Country," participants receive an overview of the main principles of Catholic social teaching, an understanding of the rights set forth in the Universal...
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Creating a Country: Part 1

Through the activity of "Creating a Country," participants receive an overview of the main principles of Catholic social teaching, an understanding of the rights set forth in the Universal...
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Prayer for Displaced Women

Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, The Social Concerns of the Church

In Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, or The Social Concerns of the Church, Pope John Paul II discusses global development and its ethical/moral dimensions. He builds on Pope Paul VI's The Development of...
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AIDS Orphans in Africa

There are millions of AIDS orphans in Africa. This unit presents two case studies that look closely at several of these children; also included are discussion questions and a prayer.

Ten Myths About World Hunger

The global food system produces enough food every year to feed each person on the earth, and yet, 800 million people do not have enough to eat. Hunger is not a myth, but myths keep us from ending...
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Prayer Service: Table of Many Breads

No matter what culture, what part of the world, bread is the staple of the poor. Throughout the world, in different lands, and in our own country, the struggle for life, for dignity, for bread, still...
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A Day in the Life of a Global Citizen

This unit features a global citizenship quiz, along with dicussion questions and a prayer.

Prayer Service for Global Solidarity

This prayer service reminds us of our call to be in solidarity with our sisters and brothers around the globe.

Prayer Service for Refugees

Prayer Service
We enter this moment in solidarity with all who long for home: the 45 million refugees and displaced persons in our world, 80% of them women and children. We hold in our prayer all who flee...
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Refugees

This seven-page unit includes a page of prayers and reflections, a true/false quiz, a fact sheet on refugees and the Catholic Church, a prayer service, suggestions for further action and a list of...
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