Caritas Internationalis General Secretariat and Caritas member representatives are attending the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV in New York this week, where they will be part ...
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Caritas Internationalis calls on the International Labour Conference (1-17 June, Geneva) to create legal protection for domestic workers by adopting the “Decent work for domestic workers” Convention and Recommendation. Caritas ...
Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed the Holy See’s support for Caritas Internationalis in an audience with Caritas delegates from around the world on the last day of the confederation’s 19th General ...
La journée tire à sa fin. La 19e assemblée générale de Caritas Internationalis aussi. Ce midi, rencontre avec le pape au Vatican, Puis, il y a eu l’adoption du message ...
Caritas Internationalis has approved Michel Roy as its new secretary general for the next four years. Caritas representatives chose Mr Roy with a majority of votes during the General Assembly ...
Une assemblée mondiale, c’est évidemment un grand nombre de plénières et du travail en ateliers. Et au menu de ces agapes délibératives, il y a inévitablement des rapports à approuver, ...
By Michelle Hough, communications officer It took Sr Senolita Vakata two days to come to Rome from Tonga in the Pacific Ocean for the Caritas Internationalis General Assembly. She’ll make ...
Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga has been elected to another term as president of Caritas Internationalis. It will be his second four-year term. The elections at the confederation’s 19th General ...
«Nous ne pouvons accepter qu’un seul de nos frères et de nos soeurs doive continuer de vivre dans l’extrême pauvreté – encore moins un milliard d’entre eux», a tonné le ...
de François Gloutnay Prédicateur de la Maison pontificale, le capucin Raniero Cantalamessa, a rappelé combien il avait été ému lorsque, présent dans un pays du Sud, il avait croisé tous ...
By Michelle Hough, communications officer The enormous richness that is Caritas suddenly hit me when we were at Mass at the end of the first day of our General Assembly. ...
By Michelle Hough, Caritas Communications Officer 21st May 2011 Of all the things you can do at the Vatican on a Saturday morning, catching a train isn’t usually one of ...
de François Gloutnay C’est dans moins d’une heure que débutera officiellement, à Rome, la 19e assemblée générale de Caritas Internationalis. Déjà quelque 300 participants et participantes sont présents dans les ...
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB,President of Caritas Internationalis, has opened its General Assembly as the confederation of Catholic charities celebrate 60 years of service to the poor. He welcomed 300 ...
[slideshow] Cardinal Robert Sarah, Cor Unum President, has just returned from tsunami and earthquake ravaged Japan. Caritas Japan has provided 10,000 people with aid supported by Caritas members around the ...
Caritas Internationalis members from across the world will send representatives to their 19th General Assembly in Rome at the end of May to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding ...
It’s the shortest national railway system in the world with just one tiny station, no registered rolling stock and no railway workers. It’s rarely used, but on Saturday 21 May ...
Caritas will be co-hosting or participating in launches of the Sphere project’s new handbook “Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response” in various locations around the globe on 14 ...
A crisis has erupted in Sokoto after presidential elections ended in violence. The conflict has caused the destruction of lives and property worth millions of naira. Some of the people ...
By Jorge Nuño Mayer Secretary General, Caritas Europa On the occasion of the launch of the SPHERE HANDBOOK – 2011 edition Dear representatives from the European Commission Dear representatives from ...
Many migrant workers from Bangladesh had been living in Libya for a long time, often for several years. Most of them were employed in the construction sector, in the capital ...
Statement from the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference Be calm but vigilant… (1 Peter 5:8) 7th April 2011 We the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, gathered in Extraordinary Plenary assembly in Juba, ...
Available in French Click here to read the entire comic strip In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), violence against women is a frequent problem. Rape has become a weapon ...
This blog entry is based on a series of articles started by Caritas Europa about the Caritas response to the recent events in Northern Africa. In this series, Caritas Italy ...
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 ...
Caritas teams visiting Duekoué in Cote D’Ivoire are reporting a thousand people have been killed there or ‘disappeared’. The Caritas Cote D’Ivoire staff were part of an inter-agency assessment team ...
Caritas is grateful to be able to announce the release of its kidnapped staff member in Côte d’Ivoire. “Fr Richard Kissi was released today. He is doing well and has ...