Nearly 6 million people in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal are struggling to meet their daily food needs. Severe malnutrition threatens the lives of 1.6 million children.
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Faith based organisations unite as UN Compacts for migrants and refugees approach implementation
Caritas has launched a Global Week of Action for migrants and refugees as Pope Francis appeals for those forced from their homes.
Caritas organisations in all regions are planning shared meals and events. Caritas Internationalis along with Caritas Rome and Italy will hold a meal with migrants and refugees at their Termini ...
Caritas is providing shelter, food and other aid in Guatemala after a volcanic eruptions causes widespread devastation.
Caritas’ work in the east and west of Aleppo has already reached more than 20,000 people with Euro 2.3 million dispensed in aid distributions, counselling and education, medical and rent ...
Sr Bridget Tighe, General Director, Caritas Jerusalem describes her recent visit to Gaza and how poverty and lack of medicines means people are suffering from pain and hardship
Caritas is launching an emergency appeal to provide urgent support for families hard hit by Cyclone Sagar which swept through Djibouti in late May.
With monsoon rains and the onset of the cyclone season expected during the next few weeks, fears are intensifying for the safety of Rohingya people living in makeshift shelters in ...
Caritas presented successful good practices on the sidelines of teh World health Assembly, namely the success stories of joint efforts in tackling the 1991 cholera emergency in Peru or the ...
Caritas is extremely concerned and actively responding to the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid fears that it could escalate into an epidemic.
Caritas is concerned about the wide gap between the Compacts’ intentions and the current policies and practices on the ground.
Caritas is launching an emergency appeal as thousands of refugees flee violence in Cameroon in an under-reported humanitarian crisis.
Caritas lacks money to keep feeding Burundian refugees in Rwanda, even the elderly, new mothers and the sick.
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 ...
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.