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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March 12, 2019

Four CRS staffers, humanitarian workers aboard Ethiopian jet that crashed

Four Catholic Relief Service staff members on their way to a training session in Nairobi, Kenya, were among the passengers aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed moments after takeoff in the east African nation. The accident on 10th March claimed the lives of 157 people on board, many of them from humanitarian agencies. Others... Read More

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September 18, 2018

Catholic workers say US aid cuts to Palestinians could be disastrous

The US budgetary cuts to humanitarian aid institutions helping Palestinians could lead to long-term disastrous consequences, said Catholic aid workers in the region. “There is concern that the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which is already dire, will be made worse,” Hilary DuBose, who represents Catholic Relief Services in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza, told Catholic... Read More

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January 28, 2017

CRS president: Denying entry to refugees won’t make US safer

While US elected officials have an obligation to protect the security of Americans, denying entry to desperate refugees will not make the country safer, said the president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services. Sean Callahan, head of CRS, said, ‘Welcoming those in need is part of America’s DNA. ‘CRS welcomes measures that will make our... Read More

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September 13, 2016

Countries bordering Nigeria help those displaced by Boko Haram

When aid worker El-hedji Gombe Abba was growing up, very little happened on the road that runs through Niger’s Diffa region into the city, but nowadays people fleeing Boko Haram violence form a seemingly endless line along it. “This is a new and terrible way of life,” Abba told Catholic News Service in a telephone... Read More

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