Religion

I read an article called Simple Solidarity on the Catholic Spirit website. The article was about fasting during lent and eating simple meals with the money we save on food we can donate that money to operation rice bowl which is a program ran by catholic relief services. Last year operation rice bowl raised more than 7 million dollars, 75% of the money is used to fight hunger in 45 countries. The other 25% of the money supports food shelves and soup kitchens in the US. This year catholic relief services hopes to send relief to Kenya. Across Kenya children are dyeing approx. 10 million Kenyans are effected by the food shortage. The pathetic situation in Kenya was caused my drought in 2007 and by violence that steamed from the 2007 election in Kenya. Through out lent simple recipes will be published in the catholic Spirit from countries that are served by catholic relief services. People are asked to put the money that they save from eating simple meatless meals into the Operation Rice Bowl box to donate to catholic relief services. Every day on the news and in newspapers we hear about the world hunger crisis by substituting simple meals for costly meals and donating the money we are standing together with or world wide brothers and sisters. 

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