NAE releases paper on climate, poverty
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The National Association of Evangelicals released a document Dec. 14 about changes to the environment and how they affect the poor.
CBF effort to address rural poverty in Missouri
A national initiative for community development may be coming to Missouri in an effort to alleviate rural poverty.
Summit offers ideas, networking to fight poverty
Missouri's poverty rate stands at 15.5 percent, with the rate among children under 18 at 18.9 percent. Individuals and groups, including churches, are partnering to help lower those numbers.
Missourians to End Poverty (MEP) -- a non-profit
Value people, Tuohy challenges those fighting poverty
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Poverty simulation begs middle class questions
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. (ABP) — Tensed like a hungry cat watching a mouse emerge from a hole in the floor I watched the string of numbers on my lottery ticket as Anna Anderson read aloud numbers on the ticket she had just drawn at the
Together for Hope West partners to fight poverty
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World leaders cite progress, challenges at UN poverty summit
NEW YORK (ABP) -- World leaders voiced deep concern about the impact of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression on international anti-poverty goals at a three-day summit at the United Nations Sept. 20-22.
Poverty-medicine clinic preaches the gospel of fitness
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Reading the Bible through the eyes of poverty yields different interpretations
Status in society can influence how people read and interpret the Bible—and often how they will act on it, according to some Christian leaders.
Urge Congress to act on poverty bills
Bread for the World is calling on constituents to urge their U.S. senators and representatives to sign on as cosponsors of bills aimed at foreign aid reform (800-828-0498 or www.congress.org).