Latin America & Caribbean

Food security and integral human development

Realising the right to adequate food and ensuring food security for all is part of a vision aimed at integral human development.

Job opening: Communications Officer (News Editor and Producer)

Caritas Internationalis is looking for an experienced communicator, possibly with a journalistic background, who can produce news and other written content at the service of the Caritas Confederation.

Caritas Internationalis addresses the G7: “We cannot ‘build back better’ on social injustice”

It is impossible to "build back better" without cancelling the debt of poor countries and reinvesting these funds in COVID-19 response and recovery

Job opening: Communications officer (Multimedia Producer)

Caritas Internationalis is looking for an experienced communicator able to produce multimedia content at the service of the Caritas Confederation, and contribute to the administration of the Caritas Baobab intranet.

St Vincent and the Grenadines, “This is the worst disaster in living memory to hit the island”

Caritas organisations in the Caribbean islands are rallying around the island of St Vincents after 20,000 people were evacuated following the eruption of La Soufrière volcano.

Promoting clean water and hygiene in Catholic health facilities

The Catholic Church is the largest civil institution that provides healthcare in the world. It builds and runs healthcare facilities (HFCs) and is present – through Caritas and other religious bodies

COVID-19 vaccines must be made available for all with equity and justice

Vaccines are to be considered as common property of humanity and must be made available for all with equity, justice and as a human right.

Urgent action for universal and equal access to COVID-19 vaccines

Caritas Internationalis Secretary General, Aloysius John, urges the international community to put the respect for human rights and human dignity at the heart of the recovery from the pandemic.

“Love rejoices in seeing others grow” Lent 2021 message

The Holy Father reminds us that Lent is the season of hope. It is this hope that we nurture together that helps us believe that “history does not end with our mistakes, our violence and injustice, or the sin that crucifies Love. It means receiving from Jesus’ open heart the Father’s forgiveness”.

Amazonia: 105 people asphyxiated in Manaus every day due to lack of oxygen and political will

For a city of just over 2.1 million inhabitants, the toll of 2,195 deaths in Manaus from COVID-19 in little more than a month, since the beginning of January, is very heavy. Caritas Brazil has launched a campaign for the immediate purchase of oxygen cylinders

Caritas in Latin America
and the Caribbean

The Caritas Latin America and Caribbean region covers a vast geographical area with great cultural and economic diversity.

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Updates from Latin America & Caribbean

Food security and integral human development

Job opening: Communications Officer (News Editor and Producer)

Caritas Internationalis addresses the G7: “We cannot ‘build back better’ on social injustice”

Job opening: Communications officer (Multimedia Producer)

St Vincent and the Grenadines, “This is the worst disaster in living memory to hit the island”

Promoting clean water and hygiene in Catholic health facilities

COVID-19 vaccines must be made available for all with equity and justice

Urgent action for universal and equal access to COVID-19 vaccines

“Love rejoices in seeing others grow” Lent 2021 message

Amazonia: 105 people asphyxiated in Manaus every day due to lack of oxygen and political will

Caritas Latin America Info

SOCIAL MEDIA

Caritas in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Caritas Latin America and Caribbean region covers a vast geographical area with great cultural and economic diversity.

Contact Caritas Latin America

Updates from Latin America & Caribbean

Caritas Latin America Info

Caritas in Latin America
and the Caribbean