Prayers to End Hunger in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month

Bread for the World is pleased to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in 2025. Throughout the month our reflections and prayers will focus on the challenges faced by Latino communities. People of Latino/Hispanic heritage are a huge benefit to the United States and add almost 4 trillion dollars annually to the economy. Many Latino families are proud immigrants having come to the U.S. to work and build a better life. Despite their hard work, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2023, nearly 22 percent of Latino/a households had at least one member who experienced food insecurity.

Since 2016, immigration has remained an important part of Bread’s advocacy agenda and now more than ever we acknowledge that immigration is a hunger issue. U.S. citizen children, too, often miss out on good nutrition because their family may fear detention and or deportation. In many Latino immigrant communities, churches report families that won’t walk to the food pantry for fear of being detained. Guided by our faith we look to scripture, and I invite us to learn from the words of the prophet Micah. We are challenged in the midst of adversity to focus on what God asks of us. Even as we recognize struggle, God calls us to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly.

He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
    and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8

Let us pray:
O God, your word guides us in all things.
You challenge us to live in right relationship with you and one another as well.
You challenge us to be people of justice. You call us to act justly and to demand justice from others.
You challenge us to seek mercy and kindness. You call us to show mercy and kindness to others, even when we disagree.
You challenge us to walk humbly alongside of you. You call us to be humble alongside of all our siblings.
Through your son Jesus Christ, we know that in life and in death, we belong to you.
Bless us O Lord that we might be more faithful. Amen
Please join us and be sure to subscribe to Bread’s resources in Spanish as well.