11/16/2025
The World Day for the Poor, established by Pope Francis in 2017, is celebrated annually to raise awareness and encourage action toward poverty and the needs of the poor:
In his first apostolic exhortation, "Dilexi Te" ("I Have Loved You"), Pope Leo XIV has taken up the call of Pope Francis for Christians to see in the poor the very face of Christ -- and to be a church that "walks poor with the poor."