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 ...
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Caritas Internationalis strongly praises efforts to build a collective international response to the large movement of migrants and refugees
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 ...
Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders will be calling on countries to ensure safe and legal pathways for migrants and refugees as well as inclusive societies and the right to ...
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 ...
East Africa and the Horn of Africa are confronting a humanitarian crisis that may worsen in 2018. Armed conflict and severe drought are causing extreme levels of hunger. Up to ...
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.
This Eastertime, we at Caritas would like to invite you to join us on a journey of faith, hope and love with migrants.
Half the people of the Central African Republic needs humanitarian aid due to a collapse of the rule of law and a failure by United Nations peacekeepers to establish security.
Cyclone Gita hit Tonga on the night of 12-13 February, destroying homes and severely damaging infrastructure on the most populated island of Tongatapu. About 80 percent of the population was ...
Caritas Mongolia reached 1700 herder families last year, focusing ones with more than four children, the poor, the elderly and single mothers.
Winter in Mongolia is turning evermore long and bitterly cold. Summer is becoming shorter and more parched. This leaves animals without enough food and the herding way of life without ...
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 ...
A dzud is the Mongolian term for when the animals of the Steppe die in vast numbers following dry hot summers and icy winters.
As the Syrian conflict enters its eighth year, it continues to have a devastating impact on millions of lives with nearly 12 million people in need of urgent relief. Caritas ...
In the first five years of his pontificate, Pope Francis has inspired and challenged us to change the geography of our hearts and minds.
Six women leaders from Caritas worldwide speak about pushing for women’s rights and changing the balance of power.
We’d set off at dawn from Ulaangom the ugly provincial capital of Uvs province to remote part of Western Mongolia.
Our awareness campaign is a chance to strengthen the bonds of our global human family. We want to create more spaces and opportunities for migrants and communities to come together.
Violence is plunging the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo into a major humanitarian emergency, warns Caritas.
More than 25,000 refugees have travelled across the border from Cameroon to Nigeria and dozens continue to arrive every week.
More than 3 million people are hungry, and 400,000 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Kasai. Without aid, many vulnerable people will simply not survive the hardships they ...
The International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Trafficking in Persons is on 8 February. To mark the day we look at exploitation on the South China Sea.
Caritas joins Pope Francis’ call for individuals, communities and world leaders “to welcome, protect, promote and integrate” migrants and refugees at every stage of their journey.
With temperatures dropping at night during the next few weeks, a hard year is closing with yet more endurance required of the Rohingya people in Bangladesh refugee camps.
Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh on 1 December on his trip to Asia. The 16 refugees travelled to Dhaka from Cox’s Bazar, where they live ...
The battle for Aleppo began in mid-2012. Fighting ended with the government taking control of the whole of the once divided Syrian city in December, 2016. One year after the ...
There has been considerable improvement in the care and treatment of children living with HIV. However, Caritas is concerned that progress is slowing down. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) consists of antiretroviral ...
by Caroline Brennan, Catholic Relief Services with additional reporting by Harriet Paterson In a late addition to his plans, Pope Francis hopes to meet Rohingya refugees from Myanmar at an ...
On his visit to Myanmar 27 to 30 November, Pope Francis called for peace based on “respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ...