News & Articles
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Half of South Sudan Facing Food Shortages, Warns UN
May 31, 2012 6:30 PM
by BBC News
BBC News, May 16, 2012:
"More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing confli...
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More urgency needed to help homeless veterans, federal officials say
May 31, 2012 6:15 PM
by Steve Vogel
From the Washington Post, May 30, 2012:
An Obama administration effort to end veteran homelessness by 2015 requires more ur...
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Working Toward a Hunger Solution
May 31, 2012 6:10 PM
by Judith Santiago
The following article appeared in the May/June issue of New World Outlook, a mission study on Poverty, and is posted here wi...
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UMCOR: World Refugee Day, June 20
May 31, 2012 5:19 PM
by United Methodist Committee on Relief
At the Lasu Refugee Camp in Yei, South Sudan, student enrollment in school jumped from 60 percent in late 2011 to 80 percent...
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The Guardian: Niger is worst country to be a mother, says report
May 30, 2012 6:00 PM
by Peter Walker
From The Guardian:
"Niger is the worst country on earth in which to be a mother, according to a report by Save the Children....
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UMTV: Photographer's Ministry With the Poor
May 30, 2012 1:10 PM
by UMTV
Paul Jeffrey went to seminary and trained as a pastor but then God called him to work outside the walls of a church, way out...
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Hunger in the DR Congo
May 30, 2012 9:30 AM
by Christie House
The following is an excerpt from "Walking With the Poor in Kamina, DR Congo," by Christie House, which appeared in the May/J...
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The Guardian: Domestic violence is biggest threat to Africa's women, IRC says
May 30, 2012 12:00 AM
by Tamasin Ford
From The Guardian, May 22, 2012:
"Husbands, not strangers or men with guns, are now the biggest threat to women in post-con...
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