Caritas Internationalis has approved Michel Roy as its new secretary general for the next four years. Caritas representatives chose Mr Roy with a majority of votes during the General Assembly ...
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Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga has been elected to another term as president of Caritas Internationalis. It will be his second four-year term. The elections at the confederation’s 19th General ...
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB,President of Caritas Internationalis, has opened its General Assembly as the confederation of Catholic charities celebrate 60 years of service to the poor. He welcomed 300 ...
Caritas Internationalis members from across the world will send representatives to their 19th General Assembly in Rome at the end of May to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding ...
It’s the shortest national railway system in the world with just one tiny station, no registered rolling stock and no railway workers. It’s rarely used, but on Saturday 21 May ...
Caritas will be co-hosting or participating in launches of the Sphere project’s new handbook “Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response” in various locations around the globe on 14 ...
Caritas teams visiting Duekoué in Cote D’Ivoire are reporting a thousand people have been killed there or ‘disappeared’. The Caritas Cote D’Ivoire staff were part of an inter-agency assessment team ...
Caritas is grateful to be able to announce the release of its kidnapped staff member in Côte d’Ivoire. “Fr Richard Kissi was released today. He is doing well and has ...
Caritas is calling for the immediate release of Fr Richard Kissi, Diocesan Director of Caritas in Abidjan who was kidnapped in the late morning of 29 March by an armed ...
Caritas Japan has launched a national donation campaign and is working closely with dioceses to support those affected by the earthquake and tsunami which hit the country on 11th March. ...
A Caritas team has been assessing needs of migrant workers fleeing violence in Libya and stranded on the Egyptian-Libya border in Salloum. Around 6000 migrant workers are stranded in Salloum ...
Caritas is launching French and Spanish versions of its highly successful online peacebuilding toolkit for trainers to further promote conflict resolution. The Caritas English language website ‘Peacebuilding: Web Toolkit for Trainers’ went live in ...
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will support relief and recovery efforts following a devastating earthquake in Christchurch on 22 February. Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is a member of Caritas Internationalis. ‘We ...
Caritas is appealing for over 300,000 euro to help people in Côte d’Ivoire who have been affected by December’s election violence. The three-month project will focus on 5000 people displaced ...
Caritas is appealing for €1.2 million ($1.65 million) to support 5,000 families who are victims of floods and mudslides in South East Brazil. The recent floods and mudslides were the ...
Floods and landslides caused by torrential rains have left more than 500 people in Brazil dead and left more than 13,000 homeless. It is being described as the worst natural ...
Caritas will help 100,000 people in Sri Lanka as it is hit by its worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. Heavy monsoon rains, especially in the three districts of ...
Caritas staff from around the world joined with their colleagues in Haiti to express mourning, solidarity and hope one year after a devastating earthquake. The 12 January 2010 earthquake left ...
Caritas is urging governments to sign the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. The convention marks its 20th anniversary ...
Governments reached agreement at the climate conference in Cancun, Mexico on Saturday to curb climate change and provide funding for poor countries. Caritas had been asking for deep and urgent ...
Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley Anne Knight attended the European Development Days in Brussels on 6 December in her capacity as Ambassador for the European Year 2010 for Combating Poverty ...
Caritas staff have sent their condolences to the family and colleagues of Bishop Michael Bunlen Mansap, who died in Bangkok 2 December. Bishop Mansap served as Vice President of Caritas ...
Caritas Internationalis urged its 165 national members to unite to protect the rights of women migrants at the end of its special ‘Female face of Migration’ conference. Over 100 representatives ...
This World AIDS Day on 1 December, Caritas is urging governments and pharmaceutical companies to invest more in HIV prevention and care for children and reducing mother-to-child transmission. “We need ...
Caritas is urging governments to make progress on funding for adaption and a fair legally binding deal at a UN conference on climate change in Cancun, Mexico. Caritas fears finalising ...
Caritas says women are suffering from exploitation, abuse, trafficking and lack labour rights as they migrate in greater numbers. It says governments are failing to implement policies to protect vulnerable ...
Caritas Internationalis welcomes the Pope’s reported comments on the importance of responding to the HIV pandemic. They are an affirmation of the importance of pastoral sensitivity and compassion in HIV ...
Leaders of Sudan’s Catholic Church believe peace is still possible in Sudan as the country faces a vote on independence in the south many fear will lead to renewed conflict. ...
A Caritas team is on its way to the Indonesian island of Mentawai after a tsunami left hundreds of people dead and many missing.
Caritas Internationalis warmly congratulates its national member in Rwanda for half a century of outstanding work and dedication to the poor.