Latin America & Caribbean

Vatican convenes ecological leadership summit

Political leaders and grassroots activists from around the world unite to signal urgent need for increased ambition on climate change and sustainability

Shelters set up in Guatemala after worst volcanic eruption in four decades

Caritas is providing shelter, food and other aid in Guatemala after a volcanic eruptions causes widespread devastation.

Working towards a better Venezuela

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 Venezuela.

Migrants and refugees risk being left behind

Caritas Internationalis strongly praises efforts to build a collective international response to the large movement of migrants and refugees

Restoring children’s health in Venezuela

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 at risk of malnutrition.

Ministry of hope in Venezuela

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 to those in need.

Water – for all and everyone

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.

Witnessing Venezuela’s hunger

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 children, checked their height, measured the shrinking circumferences of their bony arms, while she sat listlessly. A whisper of a child, at 4-years old, Angelys ...