Caritas Kenya is supporting survivors of a huge fire that devastated the Sinai slums in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September. Over a hundred people were killed and a ...
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caritas, Caritas Jerusalem, Claudette Habesch, Gaza, Israel
By Claudette Habesch, General Secretary of Caritas Jerusalem Greetings from the Holy City of the Resurrection, City of Hope where life conquered death. This week will see an important event ...
caritas, Caritas Japan, Emergencies, Japan, Laura Sheahen
By Laura Sheahen in Kamaishi When you’re in a tsunami-hit zone, there are no ground floors. At my six-story hotel in Kamaishi, a town on the east coast of Japan, ...
caritas, Caritas Japan, Japan, Japan Earthquake, Laura Sheahen
By Laura Sheahen in Sendai “The missing.” It’s been almost ten years to the day since I first heard this phrase uttered with the same quiet, charged intensity. The first ...
caritas, Caritas Pakistan, Floods 2011
A heavy downpour in the last twenty-four hours has caused further flooding in Sindh in southern Pakistan as monsoon rains affect 4.9 million. Flooding in Baluchistan is causing further misery.
caritas, Caritas Germany, Caritas Internationalis, volunteering
Caritas Internationalis Delegate Joseph Cornelius Donnelly reports from Bonn. More people everywhere are falling further into poverty and many into extreme poverty. Social situations where we live demand we respond ...
Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga, Pope Benedict, World Youth Day
More than 1000 young people gathered in the parish of the Holy Family in Madrid to hear Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga present his second catechesis at World ...
World Youth Day
By Ana Guirao, Caritas Spain The heat didn’t stop thousands of young people coming to Plaza de Cibeles to take part in the inaugural mass for World Youth Day. Even ...
Caritas Spain, World Youth Day
Ana Guirao, Caritas Spain (see below for Spanish) We just had the final press conference in preparation for World Youth Day. They offered us load of figures about the participation, ...
Caritas Australia, World Youth Day 2011
World Youth Day 2011 kicks off in Madrid on 16th August. Elizabeth Pappalardo and Krystie Tham from Caritas Australia are just two of the hundreds of thousands of young people ...
Caritas Spain, World Youth Day
By Ana Guirao, Caritas Spain Available also in Spanish Almost half a million young people from around the world will gather in Madrid with Pope Benedict to celebrate World Youth ...
Italy, migrants
By Olga Zhyvytsya, Caritas Internationalis project advisor Financial inclusion promotes social inclusion of migrants in the country of destination – this was the idea that brought together the Italian Banking ...
AIDS funding, Msgr Robert Vitillo
Msgr Robert Vitillo, Caritas’ special advisor on HIV and AIDS talks to the UN’s Non-Governmental Liaison Committee. NGLS: CARITAS Internationalis has been engaged in the response to HIV and AIDS ...
caritas, CRS, David Snyder, ECS, Emergencies, Ethiopia, HCS
By David Snyder You are not expecting rain when you come to cover a drought. But that’s what I found when I stepped off of the plane here Sunday—and what ...
caritas, East Africa Food Crisis, Emergencies, Kenya, Laura Sheahen, Somalia
By Laura Sheahen “Aden, my oldest son, was four years old. He was watching our goats,” says Ahada, a Somali woman in her early twenties. “Men with guns came and ...
caritas, East Africa Food Crisis, Eoghan Rice, Trocaire
By Eoghan Rice The Turkana district of northern Kenya is where human life began. The earliest known human remains have been found here and in the areas just north across ...
caritas, David Snyder, East Africa Food Crisis 2011, Ethiopia Catholic Secretariat
2011 is one of the worst droughts to hit East Africa and the Horn of Africa in living memory, including the east of Ethiopia. The local Caritas there is called ...
caritas, CRS, East Africa Food Crisis 2011, Kenya, Laura Sheahen, Somalia
By Laura Sheahen, Death by starvation, death by lions and hyenas or death by armed bandits. Which do you pick? For refugees streaming out of Somalia, there’s no luxury of ...
Caritas Internationalis, East Africa Food Crisis 2011, Emergencies, FAO, Martina Liebsch, WFP
Caritas Internationalis Policy Director Martina Liebsch reports on a ministerial level meeting at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome about the drought in the Horn of Africa. ...
caritas, East Africa, Emergencies, Food Crisis
By Laura Sheahen They’ve walked for days or weeks, and their shoes show it. Dusty and worn, the sandals of a little boy dangle in his hand as he wails ...
Bishop Eduardo, caritas, CRS, South Sudan
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caritas, Caritas Internationalis, Catholic Relief Services, CRS, South Sudan, Sudan
A day after the people of South Sudan came together to declare their independence, they converged on St. Teresa Cathedral of Juba, South Sudan’s capital, on July 10th to celebrate ...
caritas, CRS, Kim Pozniak, South Sudan, Sudan
By Kim Pozniak Just six months after Southern Sudanese voted with an overwhelming majority to secede from the North, the new nation of South Sudan was born. Southern Sudanese turned ...
caritas @fr, CRS @fr, Sara Fajardo @fr, South Sudan @fr, Sudan @fr
By Sara Fajardo Women bent over handmade brooms sweep the streets of southern Sudan’s capital of Juba free of dust each morning. On the few miles of paved city roads, ...
caritas, CRS, Kim Pozniak, South Sudan, Sudan
By Kim Pozniak When I arrived in South Sudan’s future capital Juba yesterday, the joyous preparations for independence were immediately apparent. Landing at the airport, another passenger pointed out the ...
Andy Schaefer, caritas, CRS, South Sudan, Sudan
Andy Schaefer, CRS technical adviser for emergency coordination, was in Agok as part of the Caritas response in Sudan that supports more than 100,000 people forced from their homes by ...
Andy Schaefer, caritas, CRS, South Sudan, Sudan
Andy Schaefer, CRS technical adviser for emergency coordination, was in Agok as part of the Caritas response in Sudan that supports more than 100,000 people forced from their homes by ...
Cardinal Turkson, caritas, Caritas Internationalis, Peacebuilding
By Patrick Nicholson, Caritas Internationalis Read this letter in French The best kept secret of the Catholic Church it is suggested is its Catholic Social Teaching (CST covers poverty, economics, ...