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Caritas at European Development Days

6/12/2010 News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley Anne Knight attended the European Development Days in Brussels on 6 December in her capacity as Ambassador for the European Year 2010 for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Lesley-Anne Knight said, “In Europe, today, one in six people are living at risk poverty. It’s one of the successes of the ...

Colleagues mourn Bishop Mansap, former Caritas President for Asia and Oceania

2/12/2010 Asia, News, Oceania, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas staff have sent their condolences to the family and colleagues of Bishop Michael Bunlen Mansap, who died in Bangkok 2 December. Bishop Mansap served as Vice President of Caritas Internationalis for the Asia and Oceania Regions from 1979 to 1984. He had previously served as Regional Coordinator for Caritas in Asia and Oceania from ...

Greater protection of women migrants essential

2/12/2010 Female face of migration, Migration, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis urged its 165 national members to unite to protect the rights of women migrants at the end of its special ‘Female face of Migration’ conference. Over 100 representatives from the Caritas confederation of Catholic charities and other migration experts from 50 countries attended the three-day conference in Saly, Senegal, 30 November to 2 ...

More funding needed for children with HIV on World AIDS Day

29/11/2010 Health, HIV & AIDS, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

This World AIDS Day on 1 December, Caritas is urging governments and pharmaceutical companies to invest more in HIV prevention and care for children and reducing mother-to-child transmission. “We need to give children with HIV the chance to live,” said Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis. “Caritas asks governments and drug companies to ...

Cancun summit must deliver climate justice

25/11/2010 News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas is urging governments to make progress on funding for adaption and a fair legally binding deal at a UN conference on climate change in Cancun, Mexico. Caritas fears finalising such a deal this year is unlikely, but Cancun must produce a concrete roadmap to reaching a fair post Kyoto Accord by the end of ...

Migrant women at great risk of exploitation, abuse and insecurity

22/11/2010 Female face of migration, Migration, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas says women are suffering from exploitation, abuse, trafficking and lack labour rights as they migrate in greater numbers. It says governments are failing to implement policies to protect vulnerable women migrants. Caritas representatives from all over the world and a range of high-level migration experts from international organisations will discuss these issues at the ...

Caritas statement on Pope and HIV and AIDS

21/11/2010 News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis welcomes the Pope’s reported comments on the importance of responding to the HIV pandemic. They are an affirmation of the importance of pastoral sensitivity and compassion in HIV and AIDS prevention. The comments are reported in the book “The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times” due to be published on ...

Sudanese bishops: war is not inevitable

15/11/2010 Africa, News, Press Release, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Leaders of Sudan’s Catholic Church believe peace is still possible in Sudan as the country faces a vote on independence in the south many fear will lead to renewed conflict. Southern Sudanese started registering Monday for the poll on 9 January 2011. The disputed oil-producing Abyei region is due to hold a simultaneous plebiscite on ...