Sentences with phrase «widows and orphaned children»

For each toy sold, WO provides two meals for widows and orphaned children.

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He calls those men not just to exercise it on behalf of their own children, but also on behalf of the orphans and widows of the global community.

Christianity is the religion out of which care and concern for orphaned children, the widowed and the sick spread through the Western world.

Neither seems to be fully in line with what James called «true religion,» which is to attend to widows and orphans (i.e., to vulnerable women and children) in their affliction (James 1:27).

We urgently need to design pastoral strategies (and even select the times for our meetings and worship services) according to the needs of that great mass of excluded people who form part of non-traditional families: single mothers, families divided by divorce, grandmothers who raise their grandchildren, widows, orphans, street children, etc..

Though flung far across this tilted and spun world, studying the serving ways of Jesus — Charles brims when he gets to this part in the story — he carried in his heart the faces of the orphaned, widowed and homeless of the Rwandan genocide, and he and his wife, Florence, scrounged and squirrelled every penny to begin sponsoring vulnerable children to attend school in Rwanda.

ACT Founder and Director Dr Kunle Onabolu told Premier they «provide education for children of widows and orphans in Africa, but also to empower widows who are poor in rural African community, to provide them with counselling, training and business skills so they generate income sustainably.»

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

The stranger is not to be wronged or oppressed, and the widow and orphan are not to be afflicted, on pain of God's appropriately avenging wrath («your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless»).

She said: «Over 70 % of the people in IDP camps are women and children who have been rendered orphans and widows.

We must carry the cries of children and women especially orphans and widows to stop the violence against mankind and Mother Earth.

The war made millions of women widows and turned children into orphans.

Gongathi Sunitha's shelter serves about 200 orphan children, 69 widows and 89 young women whom she has ejected from dire circumstances where they would have been sold into prostitution or the equivalent of slavery.