Turn Lenten alms to food for children, cardinal urges Filipinos

Gaudencio Cardinal Borbon Rosales

Function: Archbishop of Manila

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Birthdate: Aug 10, 1932	Country: Philippines

Elevated: Mar 24, 2006	More information: [link=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brosg.html][www.catholic-hierarchy.org]

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Turn Lenten alms to food for children, cardinal urges Filipinos
Feb 27, 2007
Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales of Manila has appealed to the people of the Philippines to use their Lenten almsgiving to provide food for hungry children.

Manila, Feb. 26, 2007 (CWNews.com) - There are 7.5 million children in the Philippines under the age of 10 who suffer from inadequate nutrition, according to the best estimates. The Church has taken on an effort to feed these children, with 300 parishes in 37 different dioceses providing food for 70,000 children.

Cardinal Rosales urged the faithful to expand that effort. “In these times of Lenten fasting,” he said, “remember in particular that when you sit down to a meal, thousands of children are looking for food in dumpsters.”

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