Groups involved in the three-year Caritas programme will reach 425 households in 21 villages across Tongatapu and Vava’u to the north.
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Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, Caritas Oceania, Caritas Tonga
Cardinal Rodriguez, Catholic News Service, Pope
The President of Caritas Internationalis, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga of Tegulcigalpa, talks to Catholic News Service about the challenges facing the Church as Cardinals prepare to choose a new Pope. ...
Pope Benedict, vatican
By Michelle Hough, communications officer for Caritas Internationalis It’s a strange thought, the Pope surrounded by packing boxes. It’s an even stranger thought the Pope not being Pope any more. ...
caritas, Emergencies, training
By Michelle Hough, communications officer for Caritas Internationalis Working for Caritas, you could be having an audience with the Pope one day and be suddenly heading off to a major ...
caritas, Emergencies, Peacebuilding, Syria crisis, Syria refugee crisis, volunteering
Tahani and Rahaf are both Syrian refugees who volunteer for Caritas Jordan to help their compatriots. “We had a normal life,” said Rahaf Al Jaber, a 20 year old woman ...
caritas, Catholic Relief Services, CRS, Emergencies, Mali, Mali crisis
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 ...
caritas, Caritas Jordan, Emergencies, Syria, Syrian Refugee Crisis, Syrian refugees
By Patrick Nicholson “Each Syrian you meet will tell you a different story; but they are all the same tragedy,” said Fawaz, a refugee who crossed into Jordan last month. ...
caritas, darfur, Emergencies, Laura Sheahen, Sudan
Seldom has a joint programme between aid agencies made such a personal impression on an employee, but the partnership of ACT Alliance and Caritas—Protestants and Catholics helping Darfur–struck a cord ...
caritas, climate, darfur, Emergencies, environment, Laura Sheahen, Sudan, water
By Laura Sheahen “When we first came here, we were getting water from the valley, seven kilometers away.” Muhammad is a long-time resident of a camp in Darfur for people ...
caritas, Caritas Jordan, Emergencies, Syria, Syrian Refugee Crisis
“This is a nightmare. We will wake up soon to find ourselves in our beloved Syria,” said Ismail Ahmad Al Ajrab, a 30 year old refugee from the Syrian city ...
caritas, Caritas Papua New Guinea, environment, extractives, LNG, LNGP, Papua New Guinea
Many in Hela believe they will see their traditional way of life gone forever but will not receive their fair share of the profits. Suspicion that others are getting a ...
Asia, caritas, conflict, IDPs, Kachin, Myanmar, Trocaire
Myanmar is moving forward towards democratisation. You will read much of this in the coming weeks, months and years. But spare a thought for Maran Ji in St Paul’s camp ...
caritas, Caritas Congo, congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Emergencies, emergency food rations, rwandan rebels, south kivu
An effort to repatriate Rwanda rebels currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended in violence that’s forced thousands to flee. 250 rebels from Democratic Forces for the Liberation ...
Caritas India, rape, sexual assault cases, sexual crimes, sexual violence, women lawyers
Caritas India says capital punishment is not a deterent against crimes of sexual violence, but improved protection for women and a national school curriculum that tackle these issues will help. ...
Caritas Lebanon Migration Center, Syria crisis
By Marina Bellot, Secours Catholique/Caritas France Life is increasingly difficult for Syrian refugees in Lebanon now winter has come. However, Caritas Lebanon is by their side. Syrians who cross the ...
Caritas Turkey, Syrian refugees
By Caritas Turkey There are tens of thousands Syrian refugee families living outside the tent camps along the Syria-Turkey border. This is a number increasing very fast day by day. ...
condolidated appeal, Michel Roy, Syria, Valerie Amos, WFP
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cfPwWePuqI&list=UUN7MvrHoSqI5RjV-urE1usw&index=1] Michel Roy, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, has appealed to world leaders to get involved politically and diplomatically in the world’s worst humanitarian crises. He singled out the conflict ...
climate, climate change issues, climate summit, environment, nature, science
While the Doha climate talks were wrapping up, over 700 young people from throughout the Pacific came to this event in Auckland, to learn, be inspired, have fun and take ...
caritas, Caritas lebanon, CORDAID, Emergencies, Lebanon, Syria crisis
By Jos de Voogd, Bekaa Valley The news this week is that more than 500,000 Syrian refugees have been registered by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in the region, and ...
caritas, Caritas Congo, Congo. Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Emergencies
Although international law has called for an end the recruitment of children into armed forces for over a decade, in the Democratic Republic of Congo the practice is widespread.
Caritas Portugal
The Portuguese Parliament has presented Caritas Portugal with its annual Human Rights Award in recognition of its “work in defence of human dignity”. Read more in Portuguese.
Bishops, caritas, congo, emergency, Goma
The Catholic bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are urging for an end to the conflict in the east of the country. They condemn rebel militia for seizing the ...
CIDSE, Climate Change, UNFCCC
By Emilie Johann, guest blogger in Doha for CIDSE Overall, discussions have been difficult and ministerial roundtables have taken several thorny issues from the technical to the political level. Will ...
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caritas, Caritas Internationalis, climate, Climate Change, Doha, ecumenical advocacy, environment, organic farming in india, science, UNFCCC
On Wednesday, November 27th, a coalition made of CIDSE, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), Misereor and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) held a public seminar (“side event”) ...
caritas, climate, Emergencies, flooding, niger
Niger is on alert as flood water continue to rise. The level of the Niger River has continued to rise from 506 cm on 22 November to 530 cm today ...
caritas, CIDSE, Climate Change, Doha
By guest blogger Roeland Scholtalbers, CIDSE Media & Communication Officer in Doha After a week of negotiations with little to no progress, Ministers arrive in Doha among increasing uncertainty about ...
caritas, Caritas Congo, caritas Goma, Goma, M23
By Taylor Toeka Kakala , Caritas Goma The sun begins to break as a long line of tired women and anxious men forms in front of the Caritas Goma food ...
caritas, Climate Change, UNFCCC
by Zar Gomez, Caritas Asia coordinator Now on its third day since the start of the UNFCCC meeting in Doha, Qatar, the exhibit booth of the 4-member delegation of Caritas ...
AIDS, CRS, HIV, Pope Benedict
More than 30 years into the pandemic, UNAIDS estimates that 34.2 million people worldwide are living with HIV. This number includes an estimated 3.4 million children under the age of ...