By Patrick Nicholson Syrian refugees continue to flee into neighbouring Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. They’re trying to escape fighting between government and opposition forces that began last March. Caritas members ...
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Asia, Caritas Nepal, children, Laura Sheahen, livelihoods, migrants, migration, Nepal, trafficking, women
By Laura Sheahen Thirty-year-old Madhu Tharu has been working for other people since she was a little girl. A bonded labourer in a village of bonded labourers, the Nepali woman ...
CAFOD, caritas, Caritas England and Wales, darfur, Hazel Williams, solar enery, Sudan
Hazel Williams is the humanitarian coordinator for Darfur of CAFOD (Caritas England and Wales). She recently paid a visit to some of the many camps that house people who have fled ...
caritas, Caritas lebanon, Homs, Lebanon, Syrian refugees
“The situation is bad,” said Fatima*. She had arrived from Syria into Lebanon that morning with five of her seven children. They’d fled from Kosayr, a suburb of Homs that’s ...
Asia, female face of migration, human trafficking, Laura Sheahen, migrants, migration, Nepal, trafficking, women
By Laura Sheahen “Where’s your mother?” Usually when you ask small children this question, the answer is predictable: At home. At the market. At work, a few kilometres or a ...
caritas, famine, niger
In a normal year, the harvest in November would produce enough food for the people in the village to last all year. But the harvest last year was disastrous, and ...
Bhutanese, Caritas Nepal, Laura Sheahen, Nepal, refugee camp, refugees, trafficking
In the early 1990s the country of Bhutan, in the Himalayas, forcibly drove out over 100,000 ethnic Nepalis they claimed were not true citizens. These Bhutanese refugees ended up in ...
caritas, Caritas Niger, Catholic Relief Services, CRS, Helen Blakesley, Mali, refugees, Sahel, West Africa
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 ...
caritas, Caritas Nepal, domestic workers, female face of migration, Laura Sheahen, Rupa Rai
By Laura Sheahen, “When I got home, my family saw my condition and cried.” Twenty-four-year old Damber Kumari Gurung had left her village in Nepal for Saudi Arabia to work ...
Asia, caritas, Caritas Nepal, human trafficking, Laura Sheahen, migration, Nepal, the female face of migration, traffickers, trafficking
By Laura Sheahen “In the brothel, there were no windows. The only light was from the lightbulb—that was the sun and the moon for us.” Charimaya Tamang grew up in ...
AIDS, caritas, Caritas lebanon, Syrian refugees
As violence in Syria continues, thousands of its people have streamed into the neighbouring countries of Lebanon and Jordan. “Syrians are approaching Caritas offices on a daily basis, asking for ...
caritas, Catholic Relief Services, communal violence, CRS, Jonglei, lou nuer, Rene Lambert, South Sudan
By Rene Lambert, My colleague, Jane Andanje and I, flew in a small eight-seater plane from Juba to Boma Town in Jonglei, South Sudan. We were on our way to ...
caritas, East Africa, hunger, Kenya, Laura Sheahen, radio
While Caritas and other aid agencies have helped millions of East Africans through the worst of the region’s food crisis, more remains to be done. Susan Hodges of Vatican Radio ...
golden jubilee celebration, golden jubilee celebrations, human trafficking, india network, institute of social sciences, tata institute of social sciences
Caritas India is marking its golden jubilee by reconfirming its commitment towards the poor and oppressed. Celebrations are underway in New Delhi today and tommorrow. Caritas India staff have been ...
caritas, Caritas Mexico, migration, Ryan Worms
Read in French or Spanish By Ryan Worms The journey escaping from poverty in Central America in search of prosperity in the United States and Canada is a dangerous one ...
caritas, CRS, South Sudan
Catholic Relief Services (CRS is a Caritas member based in the US) is poised to respond to the declared emergency in Jonglei State in South Sudan, where an estimated 50,000 ...
philippines cagayan de oro
By Jennifer Hardy, CRS Regional Information Officer for Asia When people living along the river went to sleep in Cagayan de Oro on Friday night, they didn’t know that a ...
caritas @es, Caritas Congo @es, congo @es
Available in French By Ryan Worms in Kinshasa and Caritas staff The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo says the country is on a collision course with disaster ...
caritas @es, congo @es
Par Ryan Worms Alors que je pars prendre le dernier vol international au départ de Kinshasa, la ville est sous tension, la violence gronde. Que sera la ville demain ou ...
caritas, Caritas Kenya, Climate Change, Durban
By Patrick Nicholson African faith leaders sent a strong message to delegates at the UN climate change conference in Durban, urging political leaders to take the decisions necessary for the ...
caritas, Climate Change, Durban
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga brought the concerns of Caritas members to one of the most important negotiating groups at the Durban climate talks: the 132 nation G77 and China bloc ...
caritas, Caritas Bangladesh, Durban
By Patrick Nicholson An insurance policy covering loss and damage to your property if there is hurricane or flood isn’t an option if you are poor. But one of the ...
caritas, Cliamte Change, Durban
By Patrick Nicholson Q. What’s God got to do with it? A. Everything “At the centre of creation is human beings,” said Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis ...
caritas, Climate Change, Durban
By Patrick Nicholson Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez of Honduras met UN officials today as talks in Durban on climate change continued. The Cardinal is representing Caritas Internationalis at the UNFCCC meeting ...
congo @es, Democratic Republic of Congo @es, Election @es, Kinshasa @es
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caritas, Climate Change, Durban
Joseph Kabiru of CAFOD talks about African perspectives on climate change at the We Have Faith rally (Durban, 28/11/2011) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNTy7mqcHes?rel=0&w=560&h=315]
CAFOD, G20
CAFOD response to Final G20 communique CAFOD’s lead economics analyst Christina Weller said: The kindest interpretation of the results of the Cannes summit is that it’s a work in progress; ...
caritas, Food, Martina Liebsch
By Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Policy Director I listened to Didi Bridgewater, walked past Claudia Cardinale, stood next to Jeremy Irons, saw Carl Lewis and took the elevator with Carla ...
caritas, Caritas Oceania, Climate Change, Marti de Jong, New Zealand
by Martin de Jong, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Against a backdrop of severe drought across the central Pacific, Caritas Oceania representatives from eight different nations gathered in Auckland, Aotearoa New ...