Pandemic increases risks of human trafficking, exploitation, say speakers

While the Covid-19 pandemic has shut down or slowed most businesses, it does not appear to have put a dent in human trafficking, said Callista Gingrich, US ambassador to the Holy See. In fact, the financial difficulties many families face around the world actually make people more vulnerable to traffickers’ offers of quick cash or... Read More

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Callista Gingrich, Cardinal Michael Czerny, Caritas Internationalis, Covid-19 pandemic, Faith-based organisations, human trafficking, Kevin Hyland, migrants, religious women, Sister Gabriella Bottani, Talitha Kum, Traffiking, US ambassador to the Holy See

June 13, 2018

Scottish charities urge faithful to support world’s ‘forgotten crisis’ in South Sudan

Scottish Catholic charities are urging the faithful to support the millions of people caught up in the developing world’s “forgotten crisis” in South Sudan. SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund) has committed £60,000 of Scottish donations to emergency aid, while Mary’s Meals has launched an emergency campaign to increase the number of children it can... Read More

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April 24, 2018

Church teaching leads Catholic entities to divest from fossil fuels

Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church’s worldwide network of humanitarian aid agencies, three German banks and more than 30 other Catholic institutions are planning to divest at least part of their financial portfolios from the fossil fuel industry. The divestment announcement by the Global Catholic Climate Movement on 22nd April, Earth Day, is part of a... Read More

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May 22, 2017

Malnutrition in Venezuela at humanitarian crisis level, Caritas says

With soaring food prices and a free-falling economy, child malnutrition in Venezuela has crossed the threshold of a humanitarian crisis, the local chapter of Caritas Internationalis said. The latest figures from a Caritas Venezuela report published on 16th May show that in four states, including the country’s capital, Caracas, 11.4 per cent of children under... Read More

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Caritas, Caritas Internationalis, humanitarian crisis, malnutrition, Venezuela

November 18, 2016

Power struggle in Syria is ‘workshop of cruelty,’ pope says

Where there is no tenderness, there is cruelty and what is unfolding in Syria is a veritable “workshop of cruelty,” Pope Francis told governing members of Caritas Internationalis. “I believe the greatest illness of today is cardiac sclerosis,” he said on 17th November, implying a kind of hardening of the heart that renders a person... Read More

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Caritas Internationalis, cruelty, Pope, Pope Francis, Syria

June 11, 2016

Pope sets up committee to distribute aid in Ukraine

After making a personal donation and asking Catholic parishes throughout Europe to take up a special collection for victims of the war in Eastern Ukraine, Pope Francis has set up a predominantly Ukrainian committee to distribute the funds and has asked that they go to projects suggested first of all by the assemblies of Ukraine’s... Read More

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May 24, 2016

Faith-based groups say they need greater role in aid distribution

Humanitarian aid can be carried out more efficiently and effectively if local and faith-based institutions are given a greater role, Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila told the World Humanitarian Summit gathering in this Turkish city. Cardinal Tagle and others in faith-based communities argue that often they are the first responders in emergency and... Read More

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Angela Merkel, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Caritas Internationalis, Humanitarian aid, Turkey, World Humanitarian Summit

April 19, 2016

Growing emergencies fuelled by environment and war, say heads of Caritas

Climate change and emergency situations are linked, but global emergencies also can be caused by people, said two leaders of Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organisation for Catholic charitable organisations. Emergencies are on the rise in the world, said Michel Roy, general secretary of Caritas Internationalis, who visited Montreal for a three-day meeting of American members... Read More

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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Caritas, Caritas Internationalis, climate change, Manilla, Michel Roy, Philippines

April 27, 2015

Pope offers prayers for quake victims, solidarity for relief workers

Pope Francis offered his prayers to all those affected by a deadly earthquake in Nepal and encouraged rescue and emergency workers in their efforts. More than 3,600 people were known to have been killed and more than 6,500 others injured after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit a mountainous region near Kathmandu on Saturday. The devastation included... Read More

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