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NEWS FROM CARITAS MEMBERS
World Refugee Day: Syria Crisis
![]() An estimated 8,000 people are fleeing Syria every day. Today, on World Refugee Day, please keep them in your prayers.
CAFOD response to G8 statement on Syria
![]() CAFOD welcomes the UK government’s commitment to more than double its current humanitarian aid to Syria.
G8 takes significant steps forward on transparency and tax as Lough Erne summit ends
![]() As world leaders boarded planes for home, this year’s G8 summit in Northern Ireland, hosted by the UK, has placed transparency and tax firmly on the global agenda. Search Caritas member news
World Refugee Day: In their faces is the face of Christ
Today is World Refugee Day: honoring the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homes. It is our chance to let the 45.2 million people forced from their homes around the world know that … Continue reading
Caritas Czech Republic gets top national prize
By Jitka Kozubková The Czech government has awarded Caritas Czech Republic with the Gratias Agit for 20 years of international humanitarian and development work. The Foreign Ministry awarded the prize, given traditionally for spreading the Czech Republic’s goodwill abroad. Caritas … Continue reading
“Protected, paid well and pleasurable”: decent work for domestic workers
Round table to mark International Domestic Workers day “For thousands of years until recently, domestic work was a form of slavery. In some parts of the world it still is,” said Armando Montemarano from the Italian domestic workers trade Union, … Continue reading
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