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		<title>Election 2010 roundup: Politics and religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 midterm congressional elections promised to reshape the political landscape, and they did just that, as Republicans swept to victory in the House while cutting deeply into the Democratic majority in the Senate. But the vote also recast the terrain on moral and social issues important to believers of all political persuasions.

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		<title>Global gender gap: Women, faith-based aid and development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A growing number of organizations are cultivating connections between religion and development and are using those links to empower women, who are key to economic and social advancement in less-developed societies. A United Nations summit this month will make closing the global gender gap a priority.]]></description>
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		<title>Do-or-die for health care: Religious groups weigh in</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care reform may be approaching a make-or-break moment as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats push to pass a bill by the weekend while Republicans have vowed to oppose the legislation. The urgency has further galvanized religious bodies and lobbies that have dedicated themselves to seeing health care reform pass &#8212; or fail. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The faith-based initiative 2.0: Obama&#8217;s new approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of work, President Barack Obama&#8217;s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships has sent him a list of proposals on revamping the White House&#8217;s faith-based program. The proposals will also set priorities for the office and will renew debate &#8212; and media coverage &#8212; of this controversial initiative. Polls show that the faith-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent in a time of sacrifice: Resources on giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The penitential season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, and runs until Easter. The season is traditionally viewed as a time of personal spiritual reflection for Christians. In recent years that lens has broadened to include a focus on helping others. Is that outward charity affected by the widespread economic pain of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger amid plenty: The moral dilemmas of farming, food and poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is a time when most Americans celebrate their bounty &#8212; and anti-poverty groups remind them how many others still go hungry. But this year the urgency is even greater, and the problems go well beyond a seasonal appeal. Indeed, the land of plenty has plenty of people experiencing hunger, as new reports show. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum wage, ethical questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal minimum wage takes another jump this month, in what proponents say is a step toward economic justice for society&#8217;s most vulnerable workers. But with unemployment nearing 10 percent and teen joblessness twice as high, others argue that a delay would have been wiser &#8212; and more righteous than putting additional jobs at risk. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope addresses economic crisis in new encyclical</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI released his third encyclical, &#8220;Caritas in Veritate,&#8221; on Tuesday, July 7. The encyclical &#8212; an authoritative teaching document from the pope &#8212; applies Benedict&#8217;s ideas and the Catholic social justice tradition to the economic crisis. It also comes out as the G-8 summit convenes in Italy. On Friday, July 10, the pope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to experts on religion and poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poverty is gaining a higher profile as the recession continues &#8212; and so is religion&#8217;s role in combating it. Unemployment figures released on June 5 showed a loss of 345,000 jobs in May and a jump in the unemployment rate to 9.4 percent. One in eight Americans is poor,and many more struggle to meet daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World hunger worsens</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_080512.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[World hunger has reached crisis proportions because of a confluence of agricultural and economic factors. The situation is so bad – with shortages, rocketing prices and political unrest – that Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, has called it “a silent tsunami.” As governments and organizations scramble to respond, the [...]]]></description>
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