On 2 July 2024, the Embassy of Chile to the Holy See, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), and Caritas Internationalis will host the event “Cartagena + 40 Process: Chile Declaration ...
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Caritas Internationalis, alongside the World Council of Churches and Jesuit Refugee Service, actively participated in the 56th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council, held from June 18 to July ...
On World Refugee Day, the Jesuit Refugee Service, Caritas Internationalis, the International Unions of Superiors General (UISG and USG), the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC), and the Jesuit ...
Kazakhstan is in the midst of one of the worst natural disaster in the country’s history. Due to rapid snowmelt and torrential rains, a catastrophic flooding impacted different regions across ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Visiting Rohingya settlements, Caritas Internationalis General-Secretary Alistair Dutton thanked the Bangladesh government for its robust and ongoing support for Rohingya refugee families and called on the global community ...
Over the past seven years, Bangladesh has been home to the world’s largest refugee settlement. In August 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh, expanding the ...
Dear Loss and Damage Fund Board Members, Congratulations on your appointment to the board of the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF). We are grateful for your acceptance of this responsibility ...
The Caritas Internationalis Venezuela Working Group (GTV), established in 2018 by Caritas delegations from Europe, the United States and Latin America to address the crisis faced by vulnerable Venezuelans inside ...
It is one year since the people of Sudan were plunged into extreme humanitarian emergency following the outbreak in mid-April 2023 of fierce fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) ...
Today’s European Parliament plenary vote on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum marks the end of lengthy negotiations to reform the European rules on asylum. Caritas Europa is concerned ...
Amry Nesma, Gaza Shelter Field Officer in interview with Caritas member CRS in Gaza shared perspectives on providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza. From the war’s unsettling beginning, our efforts have ...
For the past six months, George Antone, Caritas Jerusalem Administrative Manager in Gaza, along with his wife Nisreen and their three children, has called the compound of the only Catholic ...
To reaffirm its commitment to equality, equity and the transformative role of women in development, in 2020 Caritas Canada (Development and Peace) updated and renewed its equality policy. The new ...
Caritas Mexicana, a Woman in Charge of Pastoral Activity: I am an Afro-Mexican woman, I carry in my throat the voice of my ancestors: my mother’s, my grandmothers’, my great-great-grandmothers’. ...
On Thursday 7 March, Caritas Internationalis will publish, Equality, Encounter, Renewal: A Caritas commitment to women’s leadership and participation, based on the Holy Scriptures and Catholic Social Teaching values and ...
Powerful voices from around the world are gathering in Rome on 6 March 2024 to highlight how critical women’s leadership is to tackling the many global challenges we face. To ...
I have been working in Caritas Iraq since mid-2015 as a presenter of psychosocial support lectures within the women’s empowerment programmes which were held at Caritas Iraq – Duhok office. ...
Caritas Fiji’s First Responders program trains and supports volunteers to work together in their communities on community-led solutions to sexual violence and violence against women. This was the first time ...
If I would be asked to give Caritas a human face, I would give it a woman’s face. We do not need to do a serious research to find out ...
How Caritas Mthatha Promotes Women’s Leadership In March 2018, Caritas Mthatha/Catholic Development Centre initiated a program called Masiphunge Women Empowerment Program. Masiphunge is a Xhosa word meaning, “Come, let’s have ...
The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on the crucial role of women in building healthy, sustainable and effective societies to meet the needs of people, particularly the most fragile. From ...
Two years after the beginning of the war and nearly a decade after the conflict in the east of the country, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate and ...
Once upon a time, in a country where laughter mingled with tears and hope shone even in the darkest of times, there lived a little Ukrainian girl named Milana. Milana ...
This project, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, offers 800 children and an additional 200 parents from socially precarious and economically disadvantaged backgrounds help and support, in coping with ...
It has been almost four months since the latest round of conflict in the Holy Land began on 7 October 2023, resulting in unprecedented levels of destruction and suffering. As ...
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the southeast of Turkey on February 6th, 2023, changed many people’s lives, including Kamile’s. She used to live in Ovakent and had just finished ...
Yasmine Halalish lives in Aleppo with her husband, Fathi Moustafa, as the stepmother of three children: Raneem, who needs special health care, Tasneem and Mouhammad Moustafa. Their birth mother died. ...
One year after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on 6 February 2023, local Caritas organisations, supported by the entire Caritas network, continue to support the local population ...
As a member of the Civil Society Delegation, Caritas Internationalis will participate in the upcoming 14th Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), to be held in ...
Caritas Internationalis joins the Global Day of Action organised today, 18 December, in support of #CeasefireNow, the open call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe ...