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WILLIAM LAMBERS Imagine if the ghosts from the Charles Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol," were to visit us today. Those spirits would surely remind us to do the right thing this holiday: feed the hungry.  This takes on even more urgency as we face the biggest global hunger crisis since World War II. When Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in 1843, he wanted to raise awareness about hunger and poverty. Dickens had seen hungry and suffering children in England, and had personally experienced t...

Imagine if the ghosts from the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, were to visit us today. Those spirits would surely remind us to do the right thing this holiday: feed the hungry.  This takes on even more urgency as we face the biggest global hunger crisis since World War II. When Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843 he wanted to raise awareness about hunger and poverty. Dickens had seen hungry and suffering children in England, and had personally experienced the hard...

A woman waits in line at Catholic Charities Spanish Catholic Center parking lot in Washington July 15, 2020, to pick up free food supplies. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has served hundreds of thousands of meals to people in need across all of its food programs. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) The Croton-Cortlandt Food Pantry, hosted at Holy Name of Mary Church in Croton, N.Y., had adapted its distribution scheme to match the tim...

BLAME MADURO Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro. THE United States Embassy, in a post on its Facebook page on Sunday, was clear in who was to be blamed for the Venezuelan migrant crisis – that’s country’s leader Nicolas Maduro.  “The absence of a democratic system in Maduro’s Venezuela, ongoing systematic human rights violations, acute food shortages, precarious health systems, an electricity crisis, generalised violence and economic collapse are some of the key causes that have forc...

US Ambassador Joseph N. Mondello The United States Embassy in Port of Spain said the Maduro regime and his backers, not sanctions, are to blame for the Venezuela crisis. In a statement posted to its Facebook page on Sunday, the Embassy stated there are no sanctions or restrictions on the importation of food and medicines to Venezuela. It added that the United States is the single largest donor of humanitarian assistance for the Venezuela regional crisis and has contributed more than $1.2 billi...

Focus: HOPE donates thousands of meals to seniors across Metro Detroit Coronavirus doesn’t stop Focus: HOPE from continuing its decades-long tradition of feeding those in need Published:  Tags:  Local organizations -- like Focus: HOPE -- are trying to ease the burden one meal at a time. Loretta Brown is one of hundreds -- yes, “We’re reaching out through the community, throughout the metro area,” Brown said. “We just want to help wherever we can.” Ad “So we’ll have the turkey...

‘Maduro and his backers—not sanctions—are to blame’; US reject culpability for Venezuela crisis “[…] It is Maduro and his backers—not sanctions—who are to blame for the Venezuelan people suffering dire economic, political, and human rights conditions, and have caused millions to flee their homes since he assumed power.  “The Venezuela sanctions program is designed to limit the Maduro regime’s sources of revenue and promote accountability for those who stand in the way of re...

Syria ‑ Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #2, Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Format UN – Dec. 2020 UN – Oct. 2020 UN – Oct. 2020 UN – Nov. 2020 UN – Nov. 2020 Syria’s ongoing economic crisis continues to impact food security as food prices reach record high in October; relief actors track rising malnutrition in northwest Syria. As Syria’s COVID-19 outbreak surpasses 36,000 confirmed cases, humanitarian agencies warn that a lack of testing capacity obscures the full extent of transmission. USA...

Scoop: Biden weighs Sam Power for USAID Samantha Power (left) sits at the United Nations in 2014 with National Security adviser Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama. Photo: Anthony Behar-Pool/Getty Images Joe Biden is considering Samantha Power to head the United States Agency for International Development, which would place a high-profile figure atop foreign aid and coronavirus relief efforts, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. Why it matters: Installing Powe...

Power, now a professor at Harvard Kennedy School, is not the only candidate for the job. Foreign Policy reported at the end of November that former U.N. World Food Program executive director Ertharin Cousin topped the list. However, Axios noted that the former vice president had yet to make a final decision. Power, who previously served on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, recently penned a F...