‘God have mercy’: Tigray residents describe life under siege
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.
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by 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 | Jan 15, 2021 | Catholic Relief Services, Congress, foreign aid, News, Trump, U.S. & World News | 0 |
President Donald Trump’s decision to ask Congress to rescind billions of dollars in foreign aid spending is “extremely ill-advised,” said a senior Catholic Relief Services official.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Climate change, development, foreign aid, Interviews, lead, News, South Sudan | 0 |
South Sudan has been beset by civil conflict since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. However, that is not the only challenge it faces: It is one of the country’s most threatened by the effects of climate change.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 27, 2020 | CAFOD, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, foreign aid, Great Britain, lead, News, SCIAF, Trócaire, UK government, United Kingdom | 0 |
Catholic organizations across the UK have condemned a decision to cut the overseas aid budget by nearly a third.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 2, 2020 | CAFOD, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, development, foreign aid, lead, News | 0 |
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Warning that the COVID-19 coronavirus is “a tsunami heading towards the homes of millions of poor communities,” England’s leading Catholic international aid agency has launched an appeal to help prepare vulnerable communities from the effects of the pandemic. “The potential scale of the pandemic across Africa,
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 19, 2020 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Earthquake, foreign aid, Haiti, News, NGO, Nuns, Poverty, Religious Sisters, second | 0 |
The response to the massive earthquake that hit Haiti 10 years ago was well-intentioned but did not bring about structural change that could have helped lift the country’s overwhelming poverty, said sisters reflecting on the earthquake’s legacy.
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