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Empowering the poor in Europe

16/08/2010 Advocacy, Development, Europe, SDG by Caritas Communications

European Caritas members set up various projects to help the poor. Some provided specific rehabilitation initiatives for particular sectors of the population such as street children, the mentally ill or homeless women. Others offered advice, a meeting place or a hot meal to anybody in need. Caritas not only provided food, shelter and basic necessities ...

AIDS Conference in Vienna: We need to move forward on HIV

23/07/2010 Advocacy, Austria, Europe, Health, HIV & AIDS by Caritas Communications

Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, the Special Advisor on HIV/AIDS for Caritas Internationalis, spoke about the recent challenges in combating HIV and AIDS, on the occasion of the upcoming World AIDS Conference in Vienna (18-23 July 2010). Is the world facing up to the challenge of responding to HIV AIDS? I fear that the world is ...

AIDS conference in Vienna with call for more funding

19/07/2010 Advocacy, Austria, Europe, Health, HIV & AIDS by Caritas Communications

The 18th international Aids conference in Vienna ended Friday with one strong message: Despite the financial crisis the fight against HIV/AIDS must not decrease. “We are just at the end of the beginning,” said former US President Bill Clinton in his speech. At least 25,000 people from all over the world took part in this ...

Recognizing the problem of climate change at Caritas Belgium

30/06/2010 Advocacy, Belgium, Climate Change, Europe, Food by Caritas Communications

One cannot overemphasize the fact that the environmental challenge is the greatest global challenge humanity has ever confronted - one that concerns the very existence of the civilization and all ecosystems of the earth.

1 in 6 go hungry

23/06/2010 Advocacy, Australia, Development, Europe, Food, Italy, Malnutrition, Oceania, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

World hunger reached an historic high in 2009 with over a billion people going without enough food every day. Malnutrition increased by 13 percent in Asia, 8 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean and 6 percent in Africa.

A lifeline for Iraqi refugees in Turkey

23/06/2010 Europe, Iraq, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Turkey by Caritas Communications

“I was told to leave my country or die,” said Sanaa*. “They didn’t say why.” So in 2009, Sanaa left all she had worked for in Baghdad to go and live in Istanbul. She had friends in the Turkish capital, but nothing else. “Things are hard here. I left behind my house, my friends, my ...

Prayers and petitions at Copenhagen

23/06/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

The Copenhagen Summit on climate change brought together 119 heads of state and governments. Caritas representatives and bishops came from 25 countries, including Mexico, Zambia, South Africa, USA, India, Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean, Mozambique, Kenya, the UK, Spain, Ireland and Germany.

Poverty in Europe is a scandal

8/06/2010 Advocacy, Development, Europe, Poverty Elimination by Caritas Communications

The global recession of 2008/2009 has increased the number of people living in poverty across Europe to 85 million and also the number of those living on the breadline. Delegates from 35 Caritas members in Europe were in Madrid last weekend for the “European Congress on Poverty and Social Exclusion” to press for action alleviating ...

The road to climate justice after Copenhagen

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

By: Christine Campeau, Caritas Internationalis The Copenhagen Summit on climate change brought together 115 heads of state and governments. More than 40,000 people applied for accreditation. It was a grand but failed effort to reach a meaningful legally binding deal. Bishop Theotonius Gomes, President of Caritas Bangladesh said that the powerful nations felt morally bound ...

Finding hope as Copenhagen fails

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

The Copenhagen summit on finding a climate change action plan has failed. World leaders produced a weak toothless deal that will not help the poor in developing countries deal with effects of worsening weather conditions. Read about how the Copenhagen deal does not move us forward in reducing global warming and safeguarding lives. The short-sighted ...