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Monday 3 June 2013

Tackling the scandal of poverty - the power of the church

 

Tackling the scandal of poverty - the power of the church

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A report out this week from Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam showed that half a million people in the UK are reliant on food handouts to feed their family. Over the last three years the number of people turning to food banks to tide them over has rocketed. For Trussell Trust, the largest network of food banks, demand doubled from 2010 to 2011 and then nearly tripled the following year.

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