Cutting aid budget would be ‘devastatingly backwards step’, MPs say

Cutting the UK’s foreign aid budget would be a ‘devastatingly backwards step’ which would send a ‘worrying message’ to the rest of the world, Boris Johnson has been told. A cross-party group of MPs has written to the Prime Minister, demanding he urgently clarify rumours that spending in this area is to be reduced. Fears... Read More

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August 20, 2020

Archbishop says Church needs more aid to help refugees arriving in Greece

The archbishop of Athens, Greece, said the Catholic Church cannot continue to help refugees unless it gets more aid. Archbishop Sevastianos Rossolatos told Catholic News Service that the lone Catholic parish on the island of Lesbos was feeding refugees with help from the Rome-based Sant’Egidio Community, but said Caritas, the Church’s charitable agency, urgently needed... Read More

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August 9, 2020

US Church leaders seek aid for Catholic students in coronavirus relief bill

Some of the United States’ most prominent Church leaders have appealed to congressional negotiators to include financial support for families to continue to send their children to Catholic and non-public schools in a coronavirus relief bill currently being negotiated. Explaining how the deep economic recession caused by the pandemic since March has ‘made it impossible... Read More

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July 24, 2020

Merger of Foreign Office and Dfid must not lead to lack of expertise, warn MPs

MPs have warned that the merger of the Foreign Office and Department for International Development (Dfid) must not lead to a lessening of aid expertise. The Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee insisted creating the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) ‘risks weakening the cultures of each department’. The study said the merger raised ‘the possibility... Read More

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July 23, 2020

UK to cut aid spending by £2.9 billion due to economic hit from Covid-19

Britain is to cut its global aid budget by £2.9 billion this year due to the economic hit of the coronavirus crisis. However, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab insists the UK will still meet its commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI) on international development. Government sources said that a “line by... Read More

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July 7, 2020

Faith leaders ask Congress to boost overseas pandemic aid

Three dozen faith-based organisations, including Catholic Relief Services, have asked Congress to immediately fund efforts to respond to the coronavirus pandemic around the world. ‘If we don’t beat Covid-19 everywhere, we can’t beat it anywhere,’ CRS said in a news release publicising the letter sent on 1st July. CRS, the US bishops’ overseas relief and... Read More

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June 18, 2020

Italian bishops increase aid to dioceses hit hard by Covid-19

The Italian bishops’ conference has distributed another 10 million euros to the dioceses in northern Italy hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The money will be used for emergency aid to individuals and families struggling financially, to support organisations and institutions that are working to combat the pandemic and its effects and to help parishes... Read More

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June 18, 2020

Aid agencies warn of Yemen’s health care collapse and famine risk

CAFOD and other humanitarian agencies warn that Yemen’s health care system, already ravaged by five years of civil war, is collapsing, while its people risk famine as the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic. “Yemen is desperate for peace,” Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Yemen, said of the world’s worst... Read More

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May 13, 2020

Christians denied Covid-19 aid

By John Pontifex NGOs and Muslim leaders in Pakistan stand accused of refusing to give Covid-19 emergency aid to Christians and other religious minorities – even though they are among those worst affected by the pandemic. Cecil Shane Chaudhry, Executive Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace, a Catholic-run human rights organisation, described... Read More

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