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Fasting And Praying For The Poor

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.28.2011 | Religion
Read More: Anti-Poverty Program, Tony Hall Fast, Jim Wallis, ONE Campaign, Bread for the World, David Beckmann, Poverty, Budget Cuts Protest, Hunger Fast, Alliance to End Hunger, Religion News
Cathleen Falsani

A diverse coalition of religious leaders are calling on Americans to join them in fasting and prayer to protest budget cuts that would jeopardize the poor and hungry at home and abroad.

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Pray, Fast, Act: Spiritual Escalation Tn Response To Political Extremism

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Jim Wallis, Book of Esther, Budget Debate, Fasting and Prayer, David Beckmann, Budget Cuts, Anti-Poverty Program, David Beckmann Fast, American Jewish World Service, Budget Cuts and Fasting, Sojourners Fast, Christian Social Justice, Lent Observance, Cut Military Expenditures, Bread for the World, Tony Hall Fast, Religion News
Jim Wallis

I am joining Ambassador Tony Hall, David Beckmann of Bread for the World, ONE, American Jewish World Service, Meals on Wheels, Islamic Relief and a broad coalition to fast, pray and act.

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Top 10 Good Men Of 2010

Tom Matlack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Boston, Top 10 Men of 2010, David Beckman, Dan Savage, Josh Hamilton, Time, Goodmenproject, Chris Anderson, Chilean Miners, David Beckmann, Chris Christie, Barack Obama, Geoffrey Canada, Good Men, Good Men Project, Jeffrey Canada, Oslo, Impact News
Tom Matlack

For our inaugural Good Men of the Year list, we're not celebrating memorable personalities or newly-minted pop culture icons. This was a year of unprecedented challenges, and it cried out for good men.

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U.S. Hunger Remains At Record High, Religious Leader Hopeful

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Food Stamps, American Poverty, Hunger in America, Food Insecurity, National School Lunch Program, Hunger in the US, Bread for the World, David Beckmann, US Department of Agriculture, Food-Insecure Household, Food Security, Hunger, Religion News

By Whitney Jones Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The number of Americans struggling with hunger remained stable in 2009 despite the economic d...

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Pushing For More and Better Development Assistance, One Letter at a Time

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Jo Luck, Feed the Future, International Labour Organization (ILO), Citizens for Global Solutions, Grassroots, Asma Lateef, (FTF), Heifer International, Bread for the World Institute, David Beckmann, Hunger Report, Unctad, World News
Danielle Nierenberg

An interview with Asma Lateef, Director of the Bread for the World Institute, an anti-hunger advocacy organization.

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World Food Conference Looks At Subsistence Farming

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: World Food Conference, World Food Prize, Hunger, World Hunger, How to Solve World Hunger, Subsistence Farming, Heifer International, Jo-Luck, Bread for the World, David Beckmann, World Food Prize Ceremony, Impact News

DES MOINES, Iowa — About 1 billion small farmers worldwide, many of them women, face drought, the effects of climate change and a lack of techno...

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World Food Day: Changing the Politics of Hunger

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Jo Luck, World Food Prize, Bread for the World, Exodus From Hunger, Heifer International, David Beckmann, Un, Top Chef, Political Advocacy, World Food Day, Impact News
Kristi York Wooten

These commemorative occasions have little to do with cooking and everything to do with the humanitarian game changers who are working to find solutions to the world's hunger problem.

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