Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, has been named the recipient of the University of Notre Dame's 2024 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.
It will be presented at the university's 179th commencement ceremony May 19 at
Argentina's bishops expressed concern over rampant hunger and government cuts to parish soup kitchens, warning libertarian President Javier Milei that "food cannot be a variable in economic adjustments."
"In our country no one should go hungry as it's the blessed land of bread,"
The U.N. World Food Program, or WFP, said it would end its main assistance program this January across war-torn Syria, where over 12 million people lack regular access to sufficient food. It cited a funding crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the
As Russia attacks Ukraine's grain exports -- which feed millions in several nations -- a U.S. bishop is calling on global leaders to ensure food security.
Stopping food aid in Ethiopia from the United States and United Nations caused severe hunger that has killed hundreds of people in the northern Tigray region in recent weeks, and one local bishop said the situation is "beyond human imagination."
Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin
Success in eradicating hunger will require acts of love and solidarity, not just carefully planned and executed international programs, Pope Francis said.
"This requires, first of all, that we see others as our brothers and sisters, as members of the same human family,
The international community can no longer ignore the cries of the poor and the hungry who fall victim to food loss and waste, Pope Francis said.
In a Sept. 29 message to Qu Dongyu, director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, or
Catholic priests, nuns and church agencies are providing some relief in East Africa's drought, which scientists and experts describe as the worst in 40 years.
But the need for food, water and other basics in the drought, resulting from a fourth successive rainy
In one of a series of articles exploring how priests, deacons, and men and women religious are living out the corporal works of mercy, writer Paul Senz profiles two communities who, as part of their mission, are feeding the poor in their
The head of the Philippine bishops' conference has appealed to Catholics to give food to the poor so that they do not go hungry during a near-total lockdown Aug. 6-20.
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan said giving food now would cushion the