The World Day of the Poor is a Roman Catholic observance, celebrated on the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time since 2017. It was established by Pope Francis...
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Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. A co-production between...
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The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare (Latin: Ordo Sanctae Clarae), originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as...
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World Water Day is an annual United Nations (UN) observance day held on the 22nd of March that highlights the importance of fresh water. The day is used...
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Nurses Day (IND) is an international day observed around the world on 12 May (the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth) each year, to mark the contributions...
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Pope Francis (redirect from Pope Francis the First)
special-case sins normally reserved to the Holy See's Apostolic Penitentiary. Francis established the World Day of the Poor in his Apostolic Letter, Misericordia...
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sharing, in the faces and persons of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters", said Pope Francis on launching the World Day of the Poor. The Eastern...
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World Youth Day (WYD) is an event for young people organized by the Catholic Church that was initiated by Pope John Paul II in 1985. Its concept has been...
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The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief in England and Wales that developed out of the codification of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws in...
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World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food...
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Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day...
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World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts...
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day is a book that aims to systematically explain how the poor find solutions to their everyday...
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The Catholic Church observes the first annual World Day of the Poor. 8 December– The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is completed...
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The Little Sisters of the Poor (French: Petites Sœurs des pauvres) is a Roman Catholic religious institute for women. It was founded by Jeanne Jugan. Having...
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Poor White is a sociocultural classification used to describe economically disadvantaged Whites in the English-speaking world, especially White Americans...
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commemorate the poor souls in purgatory and gain them indulgences. In Western Christianity, including Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism...
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World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on 31 May. The annual observance informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco...
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Homeless Jesus (redirect from Jesus the Homeless)
indystar.com. The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 8 November 2023. "Homeless Jesus to be gathering place for Sunday's observance of World Day of the Poor". lfpress...
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World Toilet Day (WTD) is an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis...
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Grameen Bank (redirect from Bank for the Poor: The Grameen Bank)
Capitalism to the Poor, Mainsah, E. et al., Chazen Journal of International Business, Columbia Business School, 2004 "Ending Global Poverty". MIT World. Archived...
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Poverty in India (redirect from Poor in India)
expenditure level of less than Rs 32 / day—the poverty line for rural India—by the last headcount of the poor in India in 2013." The World Bank has been revising...
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Richie Rich (character) (redirect from Richie Rich the Poor Little Rich Boy)
Warren Kremer. Dubbed "the poor little rich boy", Richie is the only child of fantastically wealthy parents and is the world's richest kid. He is so rich...
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Catholicism portal World Day of the Poor The American prelate Robert Barron, also reversing the terms, glosses this phrase as "Jesus and the woman ... giver...
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World Habitat Day is marked on the first Monday of October each year, and is recognized by the United Nations to reflect on the state of towns and cities...
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing...
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S&P Global Ratings (redirect from Poor's Directory of Railroad Officials)
William Poor, and published two annually updated hardback guidebooks, Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States and Poor's Directory of Railway...
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allegedly overlooks the needs of minorities and the poor who are victims of environmental racism and classism." Another criticism of Earth Day is that after...
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Extreme poverty (redirect from Extreme poor)
international community could feasibly do more than lift the world's poor above $1.25/day. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is a UK based think...
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