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Poverty and Hunger

Prayers, liturgy and other resources on the theme of poverty and hunger


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Mothers wait in line to receive food aid at a distribution centre at the village of Yama in northwestern Niger August 3, 2005. [REUTERS/Finbarr O' Reilly courtesy of alertnet.org]

Prayer: Comfort and protect your people (50.50 kB)

A prayer asking for God's love in times of distress. We pray especially at this time for the people of Niger who are facing severe hunger because of poor rains

Nawal Mohummed, 26 yrs, making bread. She is a member of a women's group in Zariba, central Sudan, through which she is doing classes in literacy, bread making & farming [Annie Bungeroth]

Prayer: the persistent burden of hunger (25.00 kB)

A prayer by Fr Ignatius Ikunza, director of the Hakimani Jesuit Centre, a CAFOD partner based in Kenya.

Young gold miner in Mongbwalu, DRC [Amelia Bookstein]

Prayer: The world can't wait (53.00 kB)

This prayer asks for the courage to tell those who do not want to listen that action is needed and the world can't wait

Mulu is carrying her child on her back in the traditional way with material made from leather and decorated with shells [Almaz]

Prayers (60.50 kB)

A collection of our most popular prayers on the issue of poverty for you to download

A girl stands in front of empty granaries at the village of Tangaba in northwestern Niger, where inhabitants ate leaves and grass to survive [Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Liturgy: Our daily bread (30.00 kB)

A non-Eucharistic liturgy on food and hunger, encouraging us to see the world from the eyes of the hungry

Dedication of a hunger cloth (24.50 kB)

Prayer of dedication of the hunger cloth can take place within a larger liturgy, or among a group gathering. Hunger cloths depict a set of stories, usually taken from the gospels

Few elderly people manage to reach the relative safety of camps when they flee their homes because of fighting [Charlotte Brudenell ACT/Caritas]

Church teaching: poverty (42.50 kB)

A selection of quotations from encyclicals, the Catechism and the Catholic bishops of England and Wales on the issue of poverty

An Ethiopian woman collecting firewood [EthiopiaLives]

Scriptures on poverty (43.50 kB)

Passages from the bible on the theme of poverty, including the GCSE scripture texts on poverty

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(Left to right) Richard Cockle, John Corney, Lizzie Cranfield, and Gavin Baxter celebrate together after finishing the Great North Run 2005 [CAFOD]

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Published on 12/06/2008, last updated on 23/08/2010
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