Category: humanitarian aid

Caritas celebrates its ‘local heroes’ who provide compassion, aid worldwide

by bcadmin | Aug 20, 2022 | Caritas Internationalis, Catholic News Service, Global church, humanitarian aid, News | 0 |

Marking the day dedicated to the world’s humanitarian workers, Caritas Internationalis thanked its confederation’s “local heroes” for their compassion and dedicated service in 200 countries and territories.

Priest reports that blockade of Tigray harms church’s humanitarian response

by bcadmin | Jul 18, 2022 | Blockade, Blockade of Tigray, East Africa, Ethiopia, Featured, humanitarian aid, News, tigray, U.S. & World News | 0 |

A continuing siege of Tigray by Ethiopian government forces is frustrating church efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in need in the troubled northern region of the East Africa nation.

Aid agencies warn of crisis if U.N. does not allow aid to northwest Syria

by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, humanitarian aid, News, Syria, Syrian Civil War | 0 |

More than 30 international aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe should the U.N. Security Council fail to renew a resolution by July 10 allowing the cross-border delivery of lifesaving assistance to northwest Syria.

Ukraine recovery will be a ‘long-haul’ process, aid workers say

by bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Caritas, Church in Europe, humanitarian aid, lead, News, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |

With the war in Ukraine approaching the 3-month mark, aid workers leading the humanitarian response in the country have said the impact of the conflict is being felt globally, and the recovery process is only beginning.

Ukraine’s Caritas branch braces for crisis as threat of war looms

by bcadmin | Feb 22, 2022 | Caritas, Church in Europe, humanitarian aid, lead, News, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |

As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate, Ukraine’s charitable Caritas organization has said it is preparing for a possible humanitarian crisis should war erupt.

Catholic Relief Services says 2022 will see humanitarian challenges

by bcadmin | Jan 1, 2022 | Africa, Catholic Relief Services, Church in Africa, Ethiopia, humanitarian aid, lead, Madagascar, News | 0 |

Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international development arm, of the U.S. bishops, has listed the world’s top humanitarian crises to watch in 2022.

Catholic Charities in Texas struggles in face of immigration ‘madness’

by bcadmin | Sep 20, 2021 | Biden Administration, Catholic Charities San Antonio, Church in the US, Haiti, humanitarian aid, lead, Migration, News, Title 42, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |

Catholic Charities San Antonio traveled to the Del Rio International Bridge on Saturday with essential items for the thousands of migrants stationed there, and brought 150 migrant families back inland to help them continue their U.S. journey.

Relief workers: Haiti earthquake complicated by economy, gangs, weather

by bcadmin | Aug 16, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the Americas, Earthquake, Haiti, humanitarian aid, News | 0 |

Relief workers in Haiti said the Aug. 14 earthquake might not be as catastrophic as the 2010 quake that was closer to the capital, but recovery will be complicated because the quake came on the heels of July’s presidential assassination, of an economic and ongoing political crisis, the coronavirus pandemic […]

Cuban American bishops express solidarity, call for humanitarian aid

by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2021 | Cuban American bishops, humanitarian aid, Libertad, News, Patria y Vida, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Four Cuban American bishops called on the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba and expressed solidarity with them following protests that erupted on the island nation starting July 11.

In Ethiopia camp, displaced Tigrayans live with hunger, fear

by bcadmin | May 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Ethiopia, humanitarian aid, News | 0 |

No one knows just how many hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans have fled their homes during the war as Ethiopian troops and allied forces, including soldiers from neighboring Eritrea, pursue fighters loyal to the Tigray regional party whose leaders long dominated the national government before being sidelined by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Good Friday focuses attention on plight of Christians in Middle East

by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, CNEWA, Congregation for Eastern Churches, COVID-19 pandemic, Good Friday, Holy See, humanitarian aid, lead, News | 0 |

When Michael La Civita of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association considers how the agency prioritizes where to send aid, he says the best way to describe it is like a “triage,” given the crises so many countries face.

UK Catholic aid agency calls on governments to back faith-based groups

by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2021 | Bishops Conference of England and Wales, CAFOD, Caritas Internationalis, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, development, Development and Peace, humanitarian aid, humanitarian assistance, International aid, lead, News, UK government, United Kingdom | 0 |

As the COVID-19 pandemic causes a health and economic crisis in countries around the world, a new report says governments should see the Catholic Church as a partner in delivering aid and promoting other humanitarian projects.