The United Nations has designated Oct. 16 each year as World Food Day. On this day, the global community is urged to raise awareness and take action for those suffering from hunger and to emphasize ...

While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

The ocean was calm and flecked with sails when I arrived one morning at the beach in Ambolimailaky, a fishing village in the ...

In the first major teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV turned his attention to the poor, calling on Christians worldwide to defend those who are “lowly and powerless.” A 40-page document known as an ...

Nearly 80 percent of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by ...

What leads Yang to argue this is that immigrants in the United States send a jaw-dropping amount of money back home to their ...

BANGKOK -- The global financial crisis has highlighted a curious success story: A bank that doles out loans to some of the world's poorest, least-creditworthy people continues to have a payback rate ...

In his first apostolic exhortation, Pope Leo XIV has taken up the call of Pope Francis for Christians to see in the poor the very face of Christ -- and to be a church that "walks poor with the poor" ...

In a week when we’re all enjoying a bit of fun by hate-watching what Real Housewives of Dallas is doing to our city’s national reputation on the upper end of the income scales, the Austin-based Center ...

Kentucky has county with lowest median household income. Richest three in Va. Dec. 19, 2010 — -- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, at least judging by the most extreme neighborhoods ...

When we care for the poorest we should contemplate the wounds of Jesus Christ, wash them, dry them, bind them, heal them, and ...