Bishop Isao Kikuchi, President of Caritas Japan, was elected President of Caritas Asia only two days before the devastating 11 March earthquake and tsunami in Japan. He tells Stefan Teplan from Caritas Germany about the Caritas response to the disaster and about his hopes and ambitions for Caritas Asia. How did has the recent disaster ...
By Yuzo Akai I’ve been a volunteer for Caritas for just over a week. I live in Sendai with my mother and four cats. Normally, I study American modern history at graduate school and I’m a part-time instructor in a college, but that has all changed for the moment following the earthquake and tsunami. As ...
By Fr Daisuke Narui, Executive Director of Caritas Japan In Sendai City, there are people sleeping in shelters whose houses didn’t collapse in the 9.0 magnitude earthquake on 11 March. The people come to the shelters because they’re afraid and they don’t want to be alone. They go back to the house sometimes in the ...
An earthquake, a tsunami and now a nuclear meltdown. The people of Japan are facing their most difficult moment in recent history. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan on 11th March 2011. The resulting tsunami was powerful enough to sweep away buildings, cars and infrastructure in coastal communities. It was ...
By Fr Daisuke Narui, Executive Director of Caritas Japan Today we visited Sendai City to discuss the Caritas response to the massive earthquake and tsunami. The city was very calm and there was no sense of panic despite every that has happened and the uncertainty that has taken over people’s lives. People were in orderly ...
Caritas Japan has launched a national donation campaign and is working closely with dioceses to support those affected by the earthquake and tsunami which hit the country on 11th March. Over 1,800 people are confirmed dead so far and many thousands more are missing following the disaster. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake is the strongest in ...
The biggest earthquake to hit Japan since records began 140 years ago has devastated the country’s northeast coast and triggered a tsunami warning for the whole of the Pacific basin. Caritas Japan is mobilizing to respond to the 10 metre tsunami that struck in the region of the Diocese of Sendai today. “A tsunami has ...
In January, Caritas Internationalis Secretary-General Lesley-Anne Knight found common ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos as business and political leaders highlighted the importance of faith-based organisations in achieving the MDGs. In April, Pope Benedict XVI visited the UN in New York. “Questions of security, development goals, reduction of local and global inequalities, protection ...
Caritas says that the G8 Summit in Japan has delivered a plan of inaction on Africa, aid and climate change. Caritas Representative at the G8, Joseph Donnelly said, “The outcomes of the 2008 G8 are stalemate on climate change and a broken record on aid for Africa. The world was looking for fresh leadership, but ...