Global Poverty

Fact Sheet: Women and Food

Women produce almost half of the agricultural production on the planet.  Particularly in the Global South, they are doing so without many of the resources to which their male counterparts have...
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Prayer Service: United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Prayer Service
This three-page resource is a formatted, ready-to-use prayer service commemorating the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.  Included is a handout of images of children, women, and...
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Global Poverty Quiz

Quiz
This resource tests your knowledge of poverty around the world, its impact, and some of the current causes of global poverty. Answer sheet provided.

A Timeline on Migration, Labor, and Immigration Laws, Part One

Lesson Plan
This four page resource reviews key events in migration patterns and immigration laws in the U.S up until 1903. It raises central questions about the relationship between the need for labor and...
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A Revolution of Hope: Occupy Advent and the Vatican

This two page reflectionby guest writer Alex Mikulich, Ph.D., explores how the Occupy protestors embody the season of advent. Includes active links to background resources.

Ending Global Poverty: UN MDG Update

This two-page resource provides recent statistics on poverty, hunger, unemployment, and other ongoing challenges as reported in the 2011 UN Millennium Development Goals Update.

Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Update

Ending Poverty in Our Time. The Millennium Development Goals consist of eight key targets set by world leaders to address and eliminate poverty by 2015. World leaders just met to assess their...
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Themes of CST: Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

This resource provides an overview of the social teaching on the Option for the Poor and Vulnerable, one of the basic tenets of CST. This six-page resource can be used to gain background knowlege or...
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Option for the Poor - an Introduction

This introductory piece is in popular language and discusses the option for the poor and liberation theology as related to poverty in the U.S.

Prayer Service for World AIDS Day (Dec. 1)

Prayer Service
This two-page prayer service is a print-ready resource to mark World AIDS Day and to pray with and for all those who are living with HIV/AIDS. Resource includes song suggestions, scripture reading,...
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Looking at Root Causes: Why do Immigrants Come to the U.S.?

Lesson Plan
There are 60 countries in today's world that are poorer than they were 30 years ago. A fifth of the world's population (1.2 billion people) lives on less than $1 per day and almost half the world's...
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The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph

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