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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 Declaration of Human Rights, and a history of the human rights language found in Catholic social teaching. In this fourth installment, participants learn about the United Nations and decide whether or not they want their countries to become members.
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 Declaration of Human Rights, and a history of the human rights language found in Catholic social teaching. In this third installment, participants will draw up basic draft budgets for their countries.
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 Declaration of Human Rights, and a history of the human rights language found in Catholic social teaching. In this second installment, participants will formulate domestic and international policy for their countries.
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 Declaration of Human Rights, and a history of the human rights language found in Catholic social teaching.
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 Peoples, and after surveying the state of poor countries, he considers the confrontation between the two global blocs. He then points to the "structures of sin" as obstacles to development and calls for conversion towards solidarity.
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.
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 continues. But within the struggle lives a voiceâ€â€a cry of hope, a whisper of promise, a plea for wholeness. We believe in a world where bread is for everyone, a world of solidarity where one day poor people will eat their fill and rich people will share what they have.
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 hunger. This two-page fact sheet counters ten commonly held myths about world hunger.
This unit features a global citizenship quiz, along with dicussion questions and a prayer.
This prayer service reminds us of our call to be in solidarity with our sisters and brothers around the globe.
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 persecution, all in flight from war or oppressive regimes; all those clinging to life outside the borders of the places they once called home.
