A campaign has been launched to encourage people all over the UK to fast as an act of protest in response to the rising issue of food poverty in Britain.
Leading UK debt charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has reported a record-breaking number of calls from people struggling with personal debt in 2014.
The Right Reverend James Newcome has been appointed head of a commission into whether the Government's welfare reforms have been making poverty worse in Cumbria.
Housing and Healthcare for the most vulnerable will be in jeopardy if a new immigration legislation currently in its House of Commons report stage is passed, say Catholics in England and Wales.
Over a hundred people from churches and the community came together outside Torquay Town Hall on Sunday in support of those facing or experiencing homelessness.
Pope Francis delivered a message to members of the WEF in which he called on business and government leaders to approach economic concerns with "a renewed, profound and broadened sense of responsibility" to protect the most vulnerable.