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by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Africa, Christian Aid, Church in Africa, famine, lead, News, UK government, World hunger | 0 |
A new report backed by two UN bodies, the World Food Program (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has warned that as many as 50 million people in Eastern Africa will face acute food insecurity this year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | African famine, Catholic Relief Services, CRS, famine, Featured, Horn of Africa, Mogadishu, News, Sean Callahan, Somalia, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Amid a U.N. warning that a famine is looming in Somalia, U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services is calling for increased humanitarian support in the Horn of Africa country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in Africa, famine, News, Somalia | 0 |
Amid a U.N. warning that a famine is looming in Somalia, U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services is calling for increased humanitarian support in the Horn of Africa country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2022 | Angelus, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, famine, News, Pope Francis, Somalia | 0 |
Pope Francis called on the international community to help the people of Somalia who are at risk of famine due to severe drought.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 6, 2022 | Africa, CAFOD, Church in Africa, Climate change, Ethiopia, famine, Hunger, Kenya, lead, News, Somalia | 0 |
As droughts continue to hit countries across the Horn of Africa, a leading Catholic aid agency says 20 million people are facing an acute food shortage.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Africa, Ethiopia, famine, foreign aid, News, United Nations, War | 0 |
A year of war and months of government-enforced deprivation have left the city of a half-million people with rapidly shrinking stocks of food, fuel, medicine and cash.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2021 | Caritas, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, famine, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), German bishops, lead, Madagascar, News, World Food Program, World hunger | 0 |
Madagascar is facing a “frightening” humanitarian crisis, according to the head of the German bishops’ international office.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Christian Aid, famine, Hunger, Interviews, lead, News, World hunger | 0 |
Countries in Africa are some of the worst hit when it comes to access to food, according to the UK-based charity, Christian Aid.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | famine, International Court of Justice, Kenya, News, Refugee camps, Somalia, South Sudan, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Catholic bishops in Kenya are urging the government to shelve plans to close two refugee camps in the north, which host refugees who fled civil war and famine in Somalia and South Sudan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 16, 2021 | Burkina Faso, famine, News, Nigeria, South Sudan, U.S. & World News, World Food Program, Yemen | 0 |
Conflict is driving four countries — Yemen, South Sudan, Burkina Faso and northeastern Nigeria — into famine, the World Food Program warned.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, COVID-19 pandemic, famine, News, Pope Francis, United Nations, Vatican, World Food Program, World hunger | 0 |
Pope Francis met with David M. Beasley, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2020 | Arabian Peninsula, CAFOD, covid, famine, Featured, News, U.S. & World News, Yemen | 0 |
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.
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