Date: October 16, 2009
World Food Day is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, bring understanding and encourage year-around action to alleviate hunger. Held annually on October 16, this day also commemorates the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945.
Did You Know?
World Communion Sunday is one of six Special Sundays in The United Methodist Church. Annually observed on the first Sunday in October, World Communion Sunday gives Christians a time to share in the sacrament and then to serve God through scholarships for U.S. and international students, enabling people from throughout the world to serve and lead in their home churches and communities by making higher education a reality.
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