Free Korea today faces economic challenges like it hasn't since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, or perhaps even since it overcame mass poverty with the great industrialization of the 1960s and 1970s.

FORBES: Morning Calm, Disturbed

Today, faith leaders and laypeople are at the forefront of the fights for immigration reform in our own country and against poverty, mass atrocities, human trafficking and modern day slavery around the world.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Today, no country is in the old sense far away when the consequences of regional instability and terrorism - and then also climate change, poverty, mass population movements and even organised crime - reverberate quickly round the globe.

BBC: In full: Brown security statement

At the Mass, the pontiff urged Mexicans to rely on their faith to fight poverty, drug violence and other ills that have afflicted Mexico in recent years.

CNN: Pope's visit an effort to reinvigorate faith in Mexico

Low-income housing advocates are horrified, viewing the mass trailer parks as an expensive way to create refugee camps and to concentrate poverty.

ECONOMIST: Hurricane Katrina