Music video: a powerful song about hunger from Caritas Panama

April 16, 2014LauraBlog category 1, Stories

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Young people from Caritas Panama have taken the Food for All campaign to another level with a video of the moving song LEVANTO MI VOZ POR QUIEN NO TIENE PAN (I raise my voice for those who have no bread).

Written and composed by Maríaestelí Rios
Production: Carlos Samaniego and En La Roca
Performed by various Panamanian Catholic singers/artists: Angélica Quintero (Ecos del Silencio), Evaristo Gonzalez (Ministerio de Música Ágape / ExVive la Música TVN), Annita Castillo (San Juan Apóstol Parish, Brisas del Golf), Niudska Beitía (Ministerio de Musica Nabí), Oliver Portillo ( Distynto) and Maríaestelí Ríos (En La Roca)

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Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.
The Beatitudes
Give us this day, our daily bread.
The Our Father
A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table.
Pope Francis
I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.
Matthew 25:35
As Caritas we are one human family and we cannot let one member of that family go hungry.
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga
Caritas president
There is enough food to feed the planet. We believe that with your help, we can end hunger by 2025.
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga
Caritas president