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The (possible) function of the beatitude of the poor in the context of the struggle against poverty [PDF]
Acta Theologica, 2012 The article focuses on the beatitude of the poor in the social and religious context of historical Jesus. The original version of this makarism has to be seen as a religious statement which is not meant as a program of social reform.
Joachim Kügler
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The National Front Against Poverty: The Struggle for Income Redistribution
Global Labour Journal, 2015 This article describes the campaign developed by unions, human rights organisations and other social movements in Argentina at the end of the 1990s in order to push the government to implement measures to eliminate poverty and extreme poverty.
Luis Ernesto Campos
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1996 The essence of being a church is love. The church as an organization based on love has the responsibility of loving God, his people and the world which God himself loved first. This paper is about the responsibility of a 'poor church', the Hervormde Kerk
S. P. Mpanza
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Tra locale e globale. Sostenibilità ed empowerment nelle retoriche delle esperienze di microcredito
EtnoAntropologia, 2014 Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize 2006) success in Bangladesh, has made microcredit a globally widespread practice. Since the early nineties, microcredit has been adopted by international development organizations as the privileged strategy not only in ...
Giovanna Guerzoni, Francesca Crivellaro
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Poverty and the COVID-19 pandemic: A challenge to the church
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 This article addresses the challenge to the church in the struggle against poverty amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It starts by giving an overview of the enormity of poverty in a post-apartheid South Africa.
Johan M. van der Merwe
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World Review of Political Economy, 2023 This article provides a detailed analysis of China’s ongoing struggle against poverty. In addition to discussing the recently concluded targeted poverty alleviation program, in which the CPC-led government achieved its goal of ending extreme poverty, the
Carlos Martinez
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 To the poor, the Bible is a particularly important book which is read and reflected upon in the context of their struggles and their lived experiences. To the critics of Black theology, it may look like ‘liberation theologies’ have nothing to do with the
Olehile A. Buffel
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SPIRITUALITAS BERJUANG MENJADI MISKIN DAN BERJUANG BAGI KAUM MISKIN
Al-Qalam, 2016 Poverty and injustice are the face of Mammon that church has to against for. Both are shown in economics structure, social matter and religios legitimation that tear and scattering the humanity: Jesus ministry was against to mammon, include to the ...
Salmon Pamantung
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Local Government in the Struggle against Poverty: New Trends from Global to Local
Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2020 The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) estimates that around one billion people worldwide live under conditions of extreme poverty with under one dollar per day, cannot meet their basic human needs, and that at least one billion people live in ...
Ali Yeşildal
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2015 This article adopts an analysis that explicitly politicises poverty and relates it to the concrete history of racialised capitalism and structural inequality that defined colonialism and apartheid and continues to persist and intensify in "post ...
Joel M Modiri
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