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Caritas to launch global wave of prayer to end hunger

29/11/2013 Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Europe, Food, Food waste, Health, Latin America, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, North America, Oceania by Caritas Communications

The Caritas confederation will launch a global “wave of prayer” to promote an end to world hunger on 10th December. It marks the beginning of the Caritas anti-hunger campaign, One Human Family, Food For All. The wave starts on the island of Samoa and will sweep across the globe involving Caritas organisations and many other people on all continents.

A refugee remembers Syria

30/10/2013 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, North America, Peacebuilding, Syria, United States by Caritas Communications

The nostalgia for what Syria was – and the effort to convey that longing to others – seems to be for so many refugees the last grip on a normal life, to keep themselves from losing their minds.

How Pope Benedict changed charity

25/09/2013 Canada, Catholic Teaching, North America by Caritas Communications

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga addressed the Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) on 24 September in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Canada.

‘Everything has been destroyed and nearly everyone has been robbed’ – Central Africa Republic

2/05/2013 Africa, Blog, Central African Republic, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Central African Republic, Europe, Netherlands, North America, Peacebuilding, United States by Caritas Communications

Reports coming out of Bangui paint a brutal picture of fear and violence with no end in sight. No one feels safe and help and comfort are hard to come by as the violence persists.

Catholic Peacebuilding conference

18/04/2013 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, North America, Peacebuilding, United States by Caritas Communications

Catholic leaders, academics, and U.S. government officials addressed Catholic peacebuilding and U.S. foreign policy at a major conference, Peacebuilding 2013: Pacem in Terris at 50, April 9-10, at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Mali Crisis: A young mother’s story

21/02/2013 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Mali, North America, Peacebuilding, United States by Caritas Communications

The money the family receives from Catholic Relief Services, a Caritas member based in the USA. It covers the rent. Sometimes there’s enough to go towards some rice or millet to eat. The luxuries, like the colorful bracelets Djélika likes, will have to wait.

HIV prevention: “Where are the men?”

8/11/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Health, HIV & AIDS, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

Catholic Church-inspired organisations discuss lack of involvement among men in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission By Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, Caritas Internationalis Special Advisor on HIV/AIDS and Francesca Matera, Geneva delegation volunteer In many countries, pregnant women must seek permission from their husbands before accessing a simple HIV test that could be the determining ...

On the brink: Hunger in the Sahel (Caritas Canada)

7/09/2012 Africa, Canada, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

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On board trains to the United States, migrants are not alone

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, North America, Trafficking, United States by Caritas Communications

It is 7:30pm, in Amatlan, in the province of Cordoba Veracruz. The train whistle blows in the distance. In Norma Romero Vazquez’ kitchen, headquarters of the “Patronas “, women bustle about.. Carmen, 90, the oldest of the women in the family, takes a crate filled with bags of food. Along with her daughters and granddaughters, Carmen ...

Mali refugees in Niger need clean water

9/03/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Mali, Migration, Niger, North America, Refugees, United States by Caritas Communications

By Helen Blakesley and Caritas Internationalis staff American Caritas member Catholic Relief Services, Caritas Niger (SECADEV) and its partners are mobilising emergency water, hygiene and sanitation facilities to meet the urgent needs of thousands of Malian refugees in neighbouring Niger. Fighting in northern Mali between the army and a rebel group has forced more than ...