Today's headlines: Filipinos’ Christmas 2024, global hunger, Catholic Church on Gaza | The wRap | December 25, 2024
Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Fewer Filipinos expect a happy Christmas in 2024 compared to last year
- Global hunger crisis deepens as major nations skimp on aid
- On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis appeals for courage to better the world
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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Fewer Filipinos expect a happy Christmas in 2024 compared to last year
- Global hunger crisis deepens as major nations skimp on aid
- On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis appeals for courage to better the world
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/december-25-2024/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:12Fewer Filipinos expect a joyful holiday season in 2024.
00:17The United Nations says it expects less funding in 2025 even as hunger rises globally.
00:22And Cardinal David calls on Filipinos to empathize with Palestinians, saying Jesus would have
00:27been born in Gaza.
00:47A Social Weather Station survey reveals fewer Filipinos expect a joyful Christmas in 2024
00:53than in 2023.
00:54In the survey released on Christmas Eve, only about 65% of respondents said they expect
00:59a joyful Christmas this year, lower than last year's 73%.
01:0310% of respondents said it will be sad, which is a four-percentage-point increase from 2023.
01:0926% of them said it will neither be happy nor sad, a five-percentage-point increase
01:14from last year.
01:15Per location, the highest number of Filipinos expecting a Merry Christmas can be found in
01:19Mindanao with 73%, followed by the Visayas with 71%, Balanced Luzon at 59%, and Metro
01:25Manila at 58%.
01:28Asked what they're most grateful for, respondents said they're thankful for good health, their
01:31families, and just being alive.
01:36The United Nations says in 2025, it will only be able to raise enough funds for about 60%
01:41of the 307 million people it predicts will need humanitarian aid.
01:46This as the number of starving people rises globally and the wealthy nation's contributions
01:50decline.
01:52Humanitarian funding mainly comes from the United States, Germany, and the European Commission.
01:56They've provided 58% of the $170 billion recorded by the UN in response to crises since 2020.
02:04In 2024, UN data reveals it only raised about 46% of the $49.6 billion it sought for humanitarian
02:11aid across the globe.
02:13The shortfall forced humanitarian agencies to make agonizing decisions such as slashing
02:17rations and cutting the number of beneficiaries.
02:20The World Food Programme used to feed six million people in Syria, but it cut the number
02:24it hoped to help there to about one million people due to lack of funds.
02:28UN officials see few reasons for optimism at a time of widespread conflict, political
02:33unrest and extreme weather, all factors that stoke famine.
02:38Alaokan Bishop Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David on Christmas Eve calls on Filipino Catholics
02:43to empathize with Palestinians.
02:46In his concluding Simbang Dabi sermon, the Philippines' newest cardinal says if Jesus
02:49were born today, it would be in war-torn Gaza.
02:53He notes the biblical Israel is very different from the Israel that's been pounding Gaza
02:57with airstrikes and ground assaults since October 2023.
03:00David says it is no longer an Israel that is disadvantaged, defenseless, and oppressed
03:05by the powerful, but an Israel that is aggressive, at an advantage at war, and supported by world
03:09powers.
03:11In the Vatican, Pope Francis urges Catholics to reflect on Christ's birth as a poor carpenter's
03:15son to inspire hope that everyone can make an impact on the world.
03:19Francis says,
03:20"...hope calls us to be upset with things that are wrong and to find the courage to
03:24change them."
03:27And that's today's Wrap, I'm Cara Oliver, thank you for watching.
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