Andy Schaefer, CRS technical adviser for emergency coordination, is in Agok, Sudan working to assist some of the more than 90,000 people displaced by recent violence in the contested border ...
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caritas, Caritas Sudan, Catholic Relief Services, Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, South Sudan
The first miracle in Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala’s life happened when he was just a few months old. During a military raid on his village in southern Sudan, soldiers entered his ...
AIDS, caritas, HAART for Children, HIV, Robert Vitillo, UNGASS
By Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, Caritas Internationalis, at the High Level Meeting on AIDS, UN Headquarters It was not so difficult to wake up early in New York City ...
caritas, South Sudan
As part of programme of prayer and activities leading upto the independence for South Sudan on 9 July, the Sudanese Catholic Church will be blessing and planting trees of life to ...
caritas, Caritas Japan, Emergencies
By Caritas Japan staff Caritas Japan staff members and volunteers have been providing food and other aid to 10,000 survivors following the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. The earthquake was ...
caritas, Caritas Cambodia, Catholic Relief Services, CRS, Emergencies, Laura Sheahen
As fighting on the border between Thailand and Cambodia continues, Caritas Cambodia together with the support of Caritas member Catholic Relief Services is aiding thousands of families who had to ...
Japan
By Yuzo Akai I’ve been a volunteer for Caritas for just over a week. I live in Sendai with my mother and four cats. Normally, I study American modern history ...
caritas, CRS, Emergencies, Sara Fajardo, Sudan
by Sara Fajardo, CRS communications officer The March 2 and 5 attacks in the contested oil rich region of Abyei, Sudan, have led to estimates of more than 100 dead ...
earthquake, Japan
By Fr Daisuke Narui, Executive Director of Caritas Japan Today we visited Sendai City to discuss the Caritas response to the massive earthquake and tsunami. The city was very calm ...
Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, CCUSA, CRS, Lent
Available in French and Spanish by Dan Misleh, Executive Director of Catholic Coalition on Climate Change In an article appearing in U.S. Catholic magazine this coming month (April 2011—and posted ...
Across the globe, women do 66% of the world’s work and produce 50% of its food, yet earn only 10% its income and own 1% of its property. Such figures ...
Libya, migration, refugees, Tunisia
[slideshow]Credits: Sébastien Deschamps/Secours Catholique-Caritas France Available in French A Caritas assessment team made up of staff from Secours Catholique-Caritas France and Catholic Relief Services (CRS is a US member of ...
caritas, Catholic Relief Services, CRS, Floods 2010, Jessica Howell, pakistan
By Jessica Howell, Catholic Relief Services (CRS is a Caritas member) The early days of last August seemed fairly unremarkable for the small Pakistani village of Rajo Bhayo, until the ...
caritas, christine campeau, WSF
By Christine Campeau This was my first time at the World Social Forum and I must admit, I had no idea what to expect from this event. However, I didn’t ...
caritas, Caritas Pakistan, Emergencies, Pakistan floods
By Kamran Chaudhry, Communications officer Caritas Pakistan Jan 28 was a day with a difference for flood victims like Haji Suleman in a relief camp of Karachi , the southern ...
CAFOD, caritas, Emergencies, Pakistan floods
by Monika Vrsanska, CAFOD programme officer for the Pakistan Emergency On the road to the village of Parto Malik, we finally see the water. A lot of water, considering the ...
caritas, CORDAID, Elli Xenou, Emergencies, Pakistan floods
By Elli Xenou, Caritas Coordinator Pakistan I was at home in Athens on summer vacations when the phone rang. Cordaid’s project manager (Cordaid is Caritas Netherlands) sounded worried: “It’s raining ...
caritas, Catholic Relief Services, Emergencies, Pakistan floods
By Jessica Howell, Programme and Advocacy Officer, Catholic Relief Services Dulshan Bajkani looks to be about 23 years old, but she says she doesn’t know for sure. Regardless of her age, she’s ...
caritas, Catholic relief, Emergencies, Pakistan floods
By Jessica Howell, Programme and Advocacy Officer, Catholic Relief Services “Ours was a love marriage,” said Soomri, a frail woman with almond-shaped eyes that seem to dance when thinks about her youth. ...
caritas, Catholic Relief Services, Emergencies, Floods in Pakistan
By Jessica Howell, Programme and Advocacy Officer, Catholic Relief Services A wizened man whose mirthful eyes suggest more mischief than age, Ariz smirks when asked how old he is. “More than 50,” ...
2011, caritas, CRS, election monitoring, Emergencies, Sara Fajardo, Sudan
by Renee Lambert, Emergency Coordinator Young Sudanese polling officials sat inside a small two room school, silently unfolding ballots while national and international observers looked on. It was just after 7 ...
caritas, Caritas Haiti, Catholic Relief Services, Emergencies, haiti, Haiti earthquake, Haiti qu
Read in French or Spanish Homily of Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of Pontifical Council Cor Unum Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Hebrews 2:14-18; Psalms 105:1-2, 3-4, 8-9; Mark 1:29-39) Cher tout people Haïtien: Moin ...
caritas, Caritas Haiti, Emergencies, Haiti earthquake
French | Spanish | Creole Message from the Caritas family in Haiti On the occasion of the first anniversary of the 12th January earthquake, the members of the Caritas Internationalis ...
caritas, CRS, Emergencies, Peacebuilding, Sara Fajardo, Southern Sudan, Sudan
by Karina O’Meara as told to Sara A. Fajardo It was mid-morning when we arrived to the Juba River Port last week and it was jostling with the sounds of ...
2011, caritas, CRS, Sara Fajardo, Sudan, Sudan Elections
[slideshow]By Sara A. Fajardo, CRS Communications Officer in Juba People began arriving long before dawn. Some were rumored to have spent the night. By the time we arrived several hundred ...