Religion Assignment

Article One
URL: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/apple-admits-using-child-labour-20100301-pbzz.html
Published in: The Sunday Morning Herald.
Title: Apple admits using Child Labour
Author: Malcolm Moore
Date: March 1 2010

Article Two
URL: http://www1.american.edu/TED/nike.htm
Published in: Google
Title: Nike and Child Labour
Author: Faraz Azam
Date: June 1999

Article Three
URL: http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/
Published in: Google
Title: Make Poverty History
Author: Unkown
Date: Unknown

A Report into World Hunger

a. How many people in the world are estimated by the United Nations World Food Programme to be chronically hungry?
830 million people around the world. Because of natural disasters, armed conflict and a grinding poverty that consigns the poor to chronic malnutrition, the United Nations World Food Program reported today.
b. Why is this important?
Because if people are aware then people can help,
c. What kind of report did the agency release?
A United Nations Report.
d. Why does Ms. Catherine Bertini claim people have trouble getting out of poverty and hunger?
Because the combination of poverty and disaster causes people to have even less possibility to build resources to end their hunger
e. What is the World Food Programme’s definition of hunger?
A condition in which people fail to get enough food to provide the nutrients for active, healthy lives.
g. What events have added to the problem of world hunger in the past few years?
Droughts, and natural disasters.
h. What disasters have hurt the poorest countries?
Afghanistan which has been hit by civil war.
i. Where are the largest numbers of poor and hungry people living?
Angola, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
j. Where have conditions improved over the past few years? Where have they worsened?
They have improved in Bosnia, Namibia and Botswana — they have become worse in others, like Afghanistan.
k. How many poor people did the World Food Programme feed in the year 2000?
89 million people.
l. What does Ms. Bertini say countries need in order to alleviate hunger?
Ms. Bertini said that countries struggling to overcome hunger need not only food but also water drilling and purification equipment and better sanitation and agricultural systems.

Promotion of Peace and Disarment, Participation, Global Solidarity and Development

1.What is the Catholic teaching regarding the requirement to maintaining peace?
It promotes peace as a positive, action-oriented concept.There is a close relationship in Catholic teaching between peace and justice. Peace is the fruit of justice and is dependent upon right order among human beings.
2.Why is it wrong to exclude people from participating in society?
Everyone is equal,no one is different from each other and everyone should have the right to participate in the society, beacuse it is a fundamental demand of justic and requirement for Human Dignity that all people be assured a minimum level of participation in the community.
3.What are our global responsibilities to each other?
Our global responsability is that we are one human family, and to each other cross nation, racial, economic and ideological differences.We are to work globally for justice.

Economic Justice and Stewardship of God's Creation

Economic Justice and Stewardship of God's Creation - Questions
1.What are the rights of the worker?
They have a right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, and to safe working conditions.
2.What is union?
A union is a group that looks after rights of employess e.g. working long hours.
3.What should peoples economic limitations be?
No one is allowed to amass excessive wealth when others lack the basic necessities of life. People have a right to economic initiative and private property.
4.Who are God's gifts intended for?
Everyone, we have to look after the goods that God created.
5.What is meant in this context by:Social Mortage, Steward and Trustee?
Social Mortage - we owe everyone the responsibility of keepng the earth good and not polluting, God gave us a beautiful planet that we live on and we have to look after it and not destroy it and not as merce consumers and users.
6.What is one measure of our Stewardship?
How we treat the environment with the sign of our respect for the environment and the creator.

Rights and Responsibilities/Role of Government

1.What are every humans fundamental rights?
Human fundamental rights are:Food, shelter and clothing, employment, health care, and education, and be free.
2.What is the role of the Government in maintaining human rights.
The role of the Goverment in maintaining human rights is to promote Human Diginty, protect human rights, and build the common good( make life better, parks, roads, give houses), make everyone equal, and freedom.
3.Who is responsibile for assisting the government to achieve it's goals.
All people have a right and a responsibility to participate in political institution.

Common Good/ The Poor

1. Give an example of a community that you are part of.
I am part of the school community of Stella Maris.
2. How is this community both Sacred and Social?
It is where I learn about religion, it is also social because it is where I get to spend time with my friends and learn about other people.

3. What is the major test of a moral society?
The test of a moral society is examined from the way we help the many disadvantaged people and have sympathy for them for their situation, and us that are more fortunate have the power to help them. Many social justice activists such as the st Vincent de-Paul charity group, reflect a moral society, as they focus efforts and funding towards homeless and misfortune people.
4. In what way does our community look after the poor.
We do fundraising, by giving a $1 coin and that coin could make a difference in a person’s life. We also do other foundations such as for kids that have cancer, jump rope for heart, Valentine’s Day where you can buy lollies, cake stall and so on. These foundations can help their situation and can make them have a better and happy life. For the people that have cancer the money that we give them will make them comfortable during their recovery for those that don’t have the money.

Social Justice

Social Justice
Social Justice concerns itself with our responsibility to ensure that all people are given a “fair go”. Some issues that social justice aims to cover are:

Poverty
Child Labour
Refuges
Homelessness
Hunger
Dignity of the Human Person
Belief in the inherent dignity of the human person is the foundation of all Catholic social teaching. Human life is sacred, and the dignity of the human person is the starting point for a moral vision for society. This principle is grounded in the idea that the person is made in the image of God. The person is the clearest reflection of God among us.
Questions
1. List the 5 issues justice aims to cover
The 5 issues are: Poverty, Child Labour, Refuges, Homelessness and Hunger.
2. In your own words explain what is meant by human dignity
Self respect you have in yourself and being treating like a human.
3. What is meant by a moral vision for society
Moral is right and wrong, in a society everyone knows what’s right and wrong. They can treat everyone equally. They have their own choice.
4. Which of the 5 social justice issues relates to human dignity.
Refuges, taking them to camp and taking everything away from them and that they are not a citizen. Child Labour, they don’t get to go to school and get a chance to grow.