by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 28, 2017 | News
Baptist and Catholic leaders have addressed the United Nations’ Feb. 20 formal declaration of famine in South Sudan. The South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat issued a pastoral letter on Feb. 23 emphasizing that the ongoing civil war, which has... by Mark Woods | Sep 20, 2011 | Opinion
What links: famine in Somalia, youth unemployment, and slavery in the British town of Leighton Buzzard? No, this is not part of the Round Britain Quiz. These are three issues that have been featured in the news recently. Indeed, they have no causal link that I know... by Robert Parham | Aug 30, 2011 | Opinion
Dying children in the Horn of Africa – Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Djibouti – have had to compete with a lot in America. The death toll for Somali children under age 5 exceeds 29,000 – over the last three months – reported CBS News. Some 1,500 Somalis arrive... by Joe Phelps | Jul 27, 2011 | Opinion
I’m still a sucker for scenes from Africa amid a drought and famine. It’s what hooked me 35 years ago when a student in a required sociology class presented a report on world hunger. She was merely going through the motions to get a grade, but amazingly,... by Sophia Kishkovsky | Aug 13, 2010 | News
MOSCOW (RNS/ENInews) The Russian Orthodox Church is praying for relief from the heat and drought that has gripped Russia for two months, as one archbishop condemned some retailers for profiteering from the extreme weather conditions. That air conditioners sell for...