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MPs want hunger minister role introduced

13th January 201911th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 225 Views 0 Comment benefits, children, community, food, Food banks, hunger, Mps, Poverty, Universal Credits, World Hunger

A group of MPs want the government to introduce a Minister for Hunger to respond to a growth in food

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Help needed for Christians in Syria as prices go up and jobs are scarce

11th December 201817th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 458 Views 0 Comment 60 Centres of Hope, aid, christian, Christians in Syria, Christmas, community, Faith, God, hunger, mission, persecution, Poverty, trauma counselling and holistic care., war

Christians in Syria are facing a tough Christmas as many are still homeless and relying on food packages to make

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United in prayer

27th November 201814th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 350 Views 0 Comment #MAF, #Mission Aviation Fellowship, black, Caribbena, charity, christian, community, Faith, Flying, For the Sake of the World conference, God, hunger, Pilot, Poverty, pray, united

This November, the walls of the Bethel Convention Centre rang to the joyous sound of Christians from around the UK

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Tearfund launches ‘The Big Quiz Night’ to raise funds for those living in poverty

13th November 201812th November 2018 Josie McFarlane 372 Views 0 Comment charity, christian, Christian international, community, Event, Faith, fundraising, help, hunger, Money, Poverty, Quiz night, Tearfund

Over 1,000 UK churches sign up to take part in Tearfund’s first Big Quiz Night, a nationwide, multi-venue event to

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Food-packing event helps to feeds thousands of hungry children

5th November 20185th November 2018 Josie McFarlane 302 Views 0 Comment charity, Christ Church, Event, Feed the Hungry, fight poverty, food packing event, hunger, London, meals, packing event, volunteers

Members of Christ Church in East Greenwich London, along with people from the wider community, got together to help pack

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Venezuela crisis hits food markets and a morgue

29th October 201828th October 2018 Josie McFarlane 380 Views 0 Comment #Venezuela, community, crisis, economic war, hunger, no food, people, rotten meat

Millions of Venezuelans have left the country in the last two years, fleeing the oil-rich nation’s economic collapse. Shortages of

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Hunger levels double in Congo as violence intensifies

20th October 201818th October 2018 Josie McFarlane 291 Views 0 Comment community, Congo, food, hunger, Ituri, Kivu, Malnutrition, starvation, UNICEF

15 million women, men and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are without enough food to eat, up

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Nearly a third of South African university students go hungry

5th September 20182nd September 2018 Josie McFarlane 258 Views 0 Comment #Students #South Africa, black, community, hunger, Poverty, University

There is a common perception that students represent the elite, and so cannot possibly suffer from hunger. But this is

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Challenging Times

20th June 2017 Mariah 1005 Views 0 Comment authentic, blessing, Britain, challenge, change, divided, election, God, Gospel, government, grief, heart, hunger, International, Jesus, justice, London, meek, merciful, mourn, nation, negotiations, peace, poor, public, pure, terror, thirst, times, troubled, wise

In Britain, we find ourselves in challenging times. We have had an election in which the winners lost and where

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The spectre of starvation haunts millions as East Africa’s food crisis rages on

19th June 2017 Mariah 1029 Views 0 Comment actions, catastrophic, christian aid, crisis, East Africa, emergency, Ethiopia, food, government, hunger, immediate, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, world

East Africa’s hunger crisis will reach catastrophic proportions without immediate action from the global community, Christian Aid has warned. The

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Call for action as UK children face the worst food insecurity in Europe

16th June 2017 Mariah 1217 Views 0 Comment Action, charity, children, church, End Hunger UK, Europe, European union, food, government, hunger, insecurity, policy, Poverty, UK, UNICEF, worst

The charity Church Action on Poverty is calling for action to end hunger, as new figures show that 10% of

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Archbishop of York invites churches to support WaterAid’s Harvest Appeal and provide water to world’s poorest

8th June 20178th June 2017 Mariah 1008 Views 0 Comment Archbishop, Bottles, churches, clean, Congregations, countries, Drought, Families, fundraising, Harvest appeal, hunger, inviting, Life, poor, UK, Water, WaterAid, weather, York, Zambia

The Archbishop of York is inviting churches and congregations across the UK to join him in supporting WaterAid’s life-giving bottles

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Great British Bake Off star Martha Collison pops corn for poverty

30th May 2017 Mariah 1309 Views 0 Comment ambassador, Big Church day Out, children, Christians, church festival, Drought, farming, food, Great British Bake Off, hunger, Malawi. Africa, Martha Collison, motivate, passion, popcorn, Poverty, struggle, survive, Tearfund, training

Tearfund ambassador calls on thousands at church festival to sign up to give Festival-goers help provide essential farming training for

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Churches, mosques and faith communities respond to DEC East Africa Crisis Appeal

4th April 201723rd September 2017 admin 1723 Views 0 Comment Charities CAFOD, Chine McDonald, christian aid, DEC Charities, Donald Mavunduse, east africa crisis, eat africa crisis appeal, Faith, fundraising in the community, how to change lives, humanity, hunger, hunger crisis, Imran Madden, Islam, Islamic Relief, Jo Kitterick, Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, starvatiob, Tearfund, the truth about the third world, World Vision UK

Up and down the country supporters of the Disasters Emergency Committee’s (DEC) faith-based charities are answering the call to help