Four students killed in Sudan protests over bread and fuel shortages
Protests started again in earnest in Sudan this week. On Monday, a group of people had formed a protest in El-Obeid, complaining about the price of bread and lack of fuel. During the protest, military personnel More...
Alfie Evans dies, priest kicked out of room, the world shocked over legal battle, ‘Alfie and his parents must know their place’
British toddler Alfie Evans died in hospital on Saturday as doctors withdrew life support, the child’s parents said, following a highly publicized legal battle and a campaign that drew support from Pope Francis, More...
Oregon expands their euthanasia laws, allowing patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s to be starved to death
Oregon became the first U.S. state that legalized doctors killing sick patients and now has passed a bill that critics say will allow healthcare givers to starve to death mentally ill patients. Oregon’s Senate More...
Four Ways Larger Churches Are Helping the World to Be a Better Place
There are churches of many different sizes throughout the world. Larger churches can often make a huge impact on their community and the world as a whole though. Many people do not realize how much of an impact More...
Barbara Lee praises $1billion famine relief spending in 2017 Omnibus bill
Congresswoman Lee released the following statement on funding to fight famine in the FY2017 omnibus bill. Last month, Congresswoman Lee circulated a bipartisan letter urging her colleagues to support $1 billion More...
From Space Exploration to Securing West Africa’s Food Supply: NASA Makes a Meaningful Difference
NASA’s space exploration projects have allowed scientists to learn about what exists beyond Earth, and have arguably helped inspire schoolchildren everywhere to don space suits and become astronauts after More...
Mike Weaver talks World Vision, lives being changed
Mike Weaver from Big Daddy Weave opened up about his partnership with World Vision and seeing the fruits of their great works first hand when he traveled to Ecuador and Cambodia during a great interview on Dispatch More...
World Hunger Has Decreased, But Economists Say It’s Not Enough
According to economists, 25 developing countries have met an ambitious goal, set by the U.N., to cut their number of undernourished citizens by half. The number of chronically undernourished people in the world, More...
Crisis in South Sudan: conflict, famine and cholera
The conflict in South Sudan, which began in mid-December 2013, has left a third of the population severely food insecure. Many people are unable to farm, tend to their livestock and feed their families. According More...
Should travelers confronted by young beggars give them money?
Anyone who’s taken a Caribbean cruise or visited one of the world’s less affluent countries has been approached – sometimes even mobbed – by children begging for money. Many are dirty and obviously hungry. More...
Pope Francis addresses hunger with the FAO: It’s ‘truly scandalous’ that millions of people are still suffering and dying of starvation
The head of the Roman Catholic Church addressed the Food and Agricultural Agency of the United Nations (FAO) this week in Rome. In front of the audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis thanked the participants in More...
