Tag: Poverty

Fr Pedro Opeka, who visited Sydney recently on the eve of the 50th anniversary of his ordination, knows all about poverty in his adopted country. A 77-year-old Argentinian missionary, a Vincentian priest with a Slovenian background, he has spent the last 36 years living and working on one of Africa’s largest and most polluting rubbish tips, on the outskirts of Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital. 

“When the Church bends down to care for the poor, she assumes her highest posture,” says Pope Leo XIV in his first major document. Here we offer five takeaways.

Paula Lara and Louise Doyle, both family educators with Sydney Catholic Schools, are two of Sydney’s quiet achievers, enriching countless lives through their food charity efforts across the city’s inner and Eastern Suburbs.

Palms Australia is an international development organisation inspired by Catholic Social Teaching that has been sending participants on global mission since 1961. Recently they hosted the 2024 Palms Solidarity Awards to celebrate the individuals and organisations working towards reducing global poverty.

In Horsley Park the rate of older people who became poor in the last few years more than doubled, with a 220 per cent reported increase. Lurnea-Cartwright saw a 131 per cent increase and Liverpool a 106 per cent increase.

Without the Somascan Fathers providing food for Mere and her large brood of nine, they’d struggle to eat. Living in her cramped Chipping Norton home...

According to Graham West, CEO of the End Street Sleeping Collaboration, nobody needs to be sleeping rough in Sydney. An increase in social housing, rapid...

Our charities are besieged by increasingly stressed Australians desperate for assistance Charities are seeing record numbers of first-time clients and are giving away increasing amounts...

By Geraldine Capp Casual cruelty in the Northern Territory shocked me when I moved to Darwin in 2017 to work for the NT Government. Pedestrians walked...

Every night Nezar and Hanan Saad pray not only for their family but also the next day’s weather.

      In an election campaign dominated already by “gotcha” questions about economic statistics, Catholic agencies and researchers warn that entrenched poverty, rising cost of living...

Young adults and families say they are experiencing a spiritual revival in this town near the Syrian border even as Lebanon is pummelled by...