Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga says civilians in Gaza face a humanitarian crisis if Israeli military action is not halted by the international community.

Caritas is shocked by its staff reports of a series of massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by Ugandan rebels on Christmas Day and the days following.

Caritas is calling for an immediate end both to Hamas rocket attacks into southern Israel and Israeli bombardments of Gaza to enable humanitarian relief supplies to get through.

Violence is increasing in Sudan’s Darfur region almost six years after the crisis began leaving people more desperate than ever according to aid agency Caritas.

Caritas is calling on its supporters from around the world to put pressure on their own governments to negotiate throughout 2009 a socially just post 2012 climate agreement.

The President of Caritas Internationalis Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga is calling for the immediate release of Jestina Mukoko and other Zimbabwean human rights defenders.

Two Congolese bishops are visiting the UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday to call on the international community to stop the “silent genocide” taking place in the east of their country.

Caritas staff in rural Zimbabwe are reporting that families are mixing their dwindling food supplies with cow dung to stave off hunger.

Caritas has launched an emergency appeal to help people in Honduras rebuild their lives after a tropical storm hit the country in October.

94 Bishops, relief agencies call for urgent action and moral responsibility