Social Justice Topics

Women's Rights: The Facts

While women's lives have improved enormously, especially in the West, women still make up 70 percent of the world's poorest people. Use this 3-page fact sheet to help explore the situation of women...
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Water: Reaching the Millenium Development Goal?

An important part of any discussion on poverty today must focus on the growing crisis related to the availability of water. This resource includes a quiz, fact sheet and discussion questions.
Quiz

Quiz: How Has NAFTA Affected Women?

Use this quiz to test your knowledge about NAFTA and its particular effects on women. CST and prayer included.

Stations of the Cross: A Reflection on Debt

Linda Jones' Stations of the Cross help us to reflect on the enormous debt that burdens developing countries and their people across the world.

CST, Interfaith Quotes and the Death Penalty

This interactive activity compares quotes from Catholic Social Teaching, other faiths, and the U.S. Supreme Court Justices on the death penalty.

Prayer Service for Restoration and Healing

This prayer services, based on quotes from CST, victims of violence and well-respected figures, prayers for healing, restoration, social change, and an end to the death penalty.

Eritrea: Children and Hunger

This is one of six case studies that focuses on justice issues that impact children around the world. This case study focuses on children and hunger in Eritrea. It can be used during Lent along with...
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Nepal: Children, Trade and Child Labor

This is one of six case studies that focuses on justice issues that impact children around the world. This case study focuses on children, trade and child labor in Nepal.

The Philippines: Children and Sex Trafficking

This is one of six case studies that focuses on justice issues that impact children around the world. This case study focuses on children and sex trafficking in the Philippines. It can be used during...
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Prayer for the Children of the World

This prayer, which reflects on both the suffering and Resurrection of children around the world, can be used on Ash Wednesday to introduce the Lenten case studies on children, below. This prayer and...
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Poverty, Disasters and Development

The Option for the Poor is central principle of the Church's social teaching and relevant in disasters such as the tsunami in South East Asia. This unit consists of fact sheets on the poverty and...
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Development Aid in Poor Countries

Providing assistance and development aid to poor countries has long been a concern of the Church. This two-page fact sheet defines types of short-term and long-term aid to poor countries and explains...
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