Global Aid Effectiveness Conference in Accra has concluded with a statement containing progressive rhetoric, but it remains to be seen whether this will be backed up by real actions to ensure that aid benefits the

Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga will join world leaders at the United Nations Headquarters to discuss better ways to lift millions of people out of poverty.

Caritas is appealing for US $5,600,000 to help survivors of catastrophic flooding in northeast India.

An ecumenical delegation supported by Caritas has urged the OECD to create democratic ownership of aid ahead of a summit on aid effectiveness in Accra, 2 to 4 September.

More than two and a half million people have been evacuated from their homes in India as flooding devastated central and northern parts of Bihar after the Koshi River breached its banks.

Caritas teams are assessing damage caused in Haiti after Tropical Storm Gustav swept over the country.

Levels of poverty in the developing world will remain unacceptably high if aid reform sidesteps the central question of its impact on the poor...

Caritas has launched an appeal for funds for Georgia to support its emergency response programme that has been underway since the conflict began.

Conflict between Georgia and Russia over breakaway South Ossetia has killed thousands of people and driven at least 25,000 from their homes.

The former Caritas Internationalis President Dom Affonso Felippe Gregory, Bishop Emeritus of Imperatriz, Maranho, died of Leukaemia on Wednesday 6 August in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He was 78 years old.