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Pope’s ‘hunger for justice’ on display at Castel Gandolfo lunch
Under the Italian sun of Lake Albano and the shade of Castel Gandolfo’s Borgo Laudato Si’ trees, Pope Leo XIV enjoyed lunch with people experiencing social vulnerability. Source: NCR Online.
Pope to have lunch with 200 poor people in Castel Gandolfo
Pope Leo will have lunch with about 200 people experiencing poverty on Saturday at the Borgo Laudato Si’ educational centre, located within the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo, where the Pope is on a summer break. Source: Vatican News.
Pope’s World Day of Poor message: The Lord is refuge of the poor
Pope Leo XIV has released his message for the 10th World Day of the Poor, to be observed on November 15, with the theme of God as “the refuge of the poor”. Source: Vatican News.
Wages drop to blame for growth in poverty: research
A new research report into Australia’s national minimum wage has found the poverty line has had the largest increase in a decade. Source: ACU.
National survey finds one in four older Australian living in poverty
Huge inequity exists within the older generation of Australians, says former Liberal minister Christopher Pyne, now Chair of Council on the Ageing. Source: The Weekly Source.
Parramatta honours poor with Street Feast
The fifth annual Parramatta Street Feast brought together refugees, people experiencing hardship and local families for a day-long event that highlighted the human face of poverty and homelessness. Source: Parramatta Diocese.
Pope urges governments to support the poor
Before joining people for lunch yesterday, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor and prayed that all Christians would share “the love of God, which welcomes, binds up wounds, forgives, consoles and heals”. Source: OSV News.
‘Reality for families’ worsening, Foodbank report says
One in three Australian households went whole days without eating or compromised on meal choices in the past 12 months, according to a report released this week. Source: SBS News.
Vinnies highlights reforms to reduce poverty
At Parliament House in Canberra today, the St Vincent de Paul Society will share insights on how modest, budget-neutral reforms to Australia’s tax and welfare system could lift as many as one million Australians out of poverty.