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by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Anglican Church, Archbishop Justin Welby, Boris Johnson, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, Church of England, Great Britain, International aid, lead, News, UK government, United Kingdom | 0 |
England’s top Catholic and Anglican prelates have condemned the UK government’s plan to cut its international development aid budget to save money during the COVID-19 crisis.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 17, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, International aid, News, Trump administration | 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 | Oct 2, 2020 | Africa, Catholic Church, Catholic Relief Services, International aid, Interviews, lead, News, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, US House of Representatives | 0 |
New legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives could be a “triumph for the tens of millions of children overseas whose potential is yet to be realized,” according to the U.S. bishops’ international development agency.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 6, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, International aid, News | 0 |
Three dozen faith-based organizations, including Catholic Relief Services, have asked Congress to immediately fund efforts to respond to the coronavirus pandemic around the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 20, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, International aid, Ireland, lead, Lent, News, Riverdance, Trócaire | 0 |
In addition to spiritual loss, the Easter coronavirus lockdown meant another Irish tradition was missed: The return of the Trócaire box after Lent.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2020 | CAFOD, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, International aid, News, United Nations, 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2020 | Boris Johnson, CAFOD, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, development, Great Britain, International aid, News, SCIAF, second, UK government, United Kingdom | 0 |
Catholic aid agencies in Britain have reacted with alarm and disappointment over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement that he will merge the Department for International Development (DFID) is to merge with the Foreign Office.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 19, 2020 | Aid to the Church in Need, AVSI, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, International aid, Jesuit Refugee Service, Malteser International, News | 0 |
U.S.-based aid groups are devoting extra resources to refugees and migrant people globally who are vulnerable to the new coronavirus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 10, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, development, International aid, Lepanto, News | 0 |
Catholic Relief Services said it is reviewing allegations that educational materials and webpages produced by partner agencies include practices that are contrary to church teaching.
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