Giving food and water is basic care, says bishop amid court challenges

The Bishop of Plymouth has expressed his concern at a court’s judgement to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from a Catholic man in a coma. Bishop Mark O’Toole has expressed solidarity with the man’s family, who appealed to a court for him to be kept alive, saying the court’s decision “to allow for the withdrawal... Read More

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April 24, 2020

Polish Church warns of water shortages during pandemic

Poland’s Catholic bishops have urged nationwide prayers for rain, amid warnings huge areas of farmland could be ruined by drought during the Covid-19 pandemic. “Our homeland has struggled with the coronavirus epidemic, as the state makes efforts to maintain the economy, sustain jobs and rescue those wrestling with financial problems,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, president of... Read More

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August 7, 2019

Mumbai Catholics open churches for thousands stranded by flooding

Catholic churches and institutions in flood-hit Mumbai opened their doors to accommodate thousands of people stranded in the city by heavy rain and flooded streets. Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, and Syro-Malabar Bishop Thomas Elavanal of Kalyan, India, asked their parish priests on 5th August to help stranded and homeless people as heavy rain... Read More

Catholic Times, News – World

December 3, 2018

Ukrainian Catholics fear new war after naval clashes

Catholics in Ukraine said people fear a full-scale war with Russia, after a naval confrontation prompted the imposition of martial law in Ukraine’s eastern regions. Meanwhile, an official with Caritas Ukraine said local inhabitants had begun hoarding food, water and candles in preparation for a “sudden escalation” in events. Fr Grzegorz Semenkov, chancellor of the... Read More

Catholic Times, News – World

September 18, 2018

Catholic Charities distributes disaster relief to areas hit by Florence

The Carolinas were hard hit with record rainfall and flooding rivers from tropical storm Florence since it made landfall on 14th September. And although the storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a Category 1 tropical storm, it still caused extensive water damage. At least 24 people died in storm-related incidents, tens of thousands of... Read More

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