Almsgiving

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Almsgiving

The act or practice of giving money to the poor or to an organization dedicated to religious or social issues. Almsgiving is an important part of many religions, which generally encourage or commend taking care of the poor.

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Tobit 4:7, 9-10 RSV, italics mine) Almsgiving delivers from death, and it will purge away every sin.

Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition

Voluntary charity -- individual almsgiving, for example -- is not considered "voluntarism," partially because it is not a corporate activity, but also (and paradoxically) because the societies whose work the author most admires explicitly attacked the evils allegedly encouraged by individual almsgiving.

Poverty Is Not a Vice: Charity, Society and the State in Imperial Russia

It is in this light that she recommends reading ancient Christian exhortations to "redemptive almsgiving," examining the issue in Alexandria, various apocryphal writings, and Latin North Africa.

Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich: Wealth, Poverty, and Early Christian Formation

Bogoda Seelawimala, together with the Head Priests and other resident priests from Thames Buddhist Vihara, Kingsbury Buddhist Vihara, Birmingham Maha Vihara in Birmingham, Jethavana Buddhist Vihara in Birmingham, Redbridge Buddhist Vihara in Ilford, Mahamevnawa Bhavana Asapuwa in Watford, Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya in Letchworth, Lumbini Vihara in East Ham, attended the Pirith Chanting Ceremony and Almsgiving at the High Commission.

Sri Lanka High Commission organized religious ceremonies to invoke blessings on the President

Any reading of the Christian tradition indicates that almsgiving was always seen as a hallmark of Christians, because it is a sign that people recognize their links to others in community," he says.

In God we trust: there is a wealth of opportunity for Catholics looking to put their money where their faith is

It is precisely to keep alive this welcoming and attentive attitude towards our brothers and sisters that I encourage the parishes and every other community to intensify in Lent the custom of private and communal fasts, joined to the reading of the Word of God, prayer and almsgiving.

'Fasting is a great help to avoid sin and all that leads to it'

Lent provides us with opportunities to deepen our Christian lives, our relationship with God, especially through the pillars of Judeo-Christian spirituality mentioned in the Gospel: Almsgiving, prayer, and fasting.

Almsgiving, prayer, fasting

Her livelihood depends on one of the five pillars of Islam: almsgiving.

Smiles, conversations and faith: won't it be splendid when we all can speak and listen to others explain what inspires us without quarreling?

31 And hath mad me blessed wheresoever I may be, and hath enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I remain alive,

Christmas in the Qoran

Cultivating a bountiful spiritual life makes good use of Lent's traditional tools of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer.

Can you dig it? Lent is the perfect time for families to go deep and weed our inner gardens

Fasting and almsgiving, which, together with prayer, the Church proposes in a special way during the Lenten Season, are suitable means for us to become conformed to this "gaze.

Message of his holiness Benedict XVI for lent 2006

It is modeled on the prevalent notions of Jewish piety, which understood individual moral response to God as borne principally in almsgiving, prayer, and fasting.