Sentences with phrase «as economic misery»

That time appears to be now as economic misery in European nations like Greece and Italy intensifies along with risks of a double dip recession for some countries.

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And as to the comfort the gospel speaks of, it seems that Christianity ought no longer to be the comforter of the poor and the afflicted, because, forsooth, «if you comfort them you divert them from seeking material, concrete means for ending their misery; if they are comforted by faith, they will not set to work to solve the economic problems.»

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

For two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.»

By the same token, 2011 promises to be a year of social and economic misery, as the coalition's cuts and the heaviest costs of the bankers» crisis are loaded on to the poorest under the slogan «we're all in this together».

Education will enable refugees to lift themselves out of poverty and misery and, eventually, obtain the means to participate fully in the host communities as well as to contribute to national economic development and, upon return, to the development of their own countries.