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Venezuela crisis: Caritas volunteers restore health and hope

2/09/2018 Emergencies, Food, Health, Latin America, Malnutrition, Migration, Refugees, Venezuela, Volunteers by Francesca Frezza

Monitoring children at risk of malnutrition Maria Mendoza opens the doors to her driveway in Punta de Mulato, Venezuela in early July. She’s preparing for a weekly growth monitoring session for children under five. Caritas volunteers who have been inspired to help during the Venezuela crisis carry chairs and tables from the Church grounds. A ...

Vatican convenes ecological leadership summit

3/07/2018 Advocacy, Africa, Asia, Catholic Teaching, Climate Change, Development, Europe, Food, Latin America, Meetings & Events, Middle East & North Africa, News, North America, Oceania, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Political leaders and grassroots activists from around the world unite to signal urgent need for increased ambition on climate change and sustainability

Shelters set up in Guatemala after worst volcanic eruption in four decades

6/06/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Guatemala by Caritas Communications

Caritas is providing shelter, food and other aid in Guatemala after a volcanic eruptions causes widespread devastation.

Working towards a better Venezuela

26/04/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Malnutrition, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Scarcity of staple foods is touching every aspect of life in Venezuela. In the lead up to Easter, the Colombian Church donated 250,000 communion wafers to the Catholic Church in Venezuela.

Migrants and refugees risk being left behind

24/04/2018 Advocacy, Africa, Asia, Domestic servitude, Europe, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Minor migrants, News, Oceania, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis strongly praises efforts to build a collective international response to the large movement of migrants and refugees

Restoring children’s health in Venezuela

17/04/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Latin America, Malnutrition, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Reports reveal a rapidly growing public health crisis in Venezuela where 68 percent of the children show varying degrees of malnutrition and 48 percent of the selected expectant mothers are at risk of malnutrition.

Ministry of hope in Venezuela

9/04/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

Galloping inflation has reached 2,735 percent. The Venezuelan economy is crippled. Its citizens are spiraling deeper into hunger. Caritas Venezuela has stepped forward to provide medical, nutritional and spiritual care to those in need.

Water – for all and everyone

21/03/2018 Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, Climate Change, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, Nepal, Peru by Caritas Communications

Water is a fundamental human right but water scarcity around the world is causing severe problems and human suffering that are likely to worsen in the future, warns Caritas Internationalis.

Witnessing Venezuela’s hunger

15/03/2018 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Latin America, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

By Suzanna Tkalec, Humanitarian Director at Caritas Internationalis I first saw her at a Caritas Venezuela malnutrition screening of hungry mothers and hungrier children in Santa Lucia. Health workers weighed children, checked their height, measured the shrinking circumferences of their bony arms, while she sat listlessly. A whisper of a child, at 4-years old, Angelys ...

Five years of Caritas and Pope Francis

12/03/2018 Africa, Asia, Catholic Teaching, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, North America, Oceania by Caritas Communications

In the first five years of his pontificate, Pope Francis has inspired and challenged us to change the geography of our hearts and minds.