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CAFOD blames IMF’s ‘devastating’ role in global debt crisis

April 18, 2024

As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank hold their Spring meeting, a leading Catholic international aid group says the world is sinking “deeper into a global sovereign debt crisis”. The world’s two leading financial behemoths are meeting in Washington, DC, from 15-20 April. But while their respective representatives and experts meet and

Gaza ceasefire ‘finally a step closer’ after UN Security Council resolution, says CAFOD

March 26, 2024

The United Nations Security Council on 26 March passed a resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It also called for an unconditional release of all hostages. According to CAFOD, England’s leading Catholic international aid agency, as a result of the UN resolution, the conditions needed to prevent

An entire generation of Syrian children has never known home due to civil war, says UK’s leading Catholic charity

March 14, 2024

With Syria reaching the 13th anniversary of the beginning of its civil war on 15 March, the UK’s leading Catholic charity has highlighted how there is now an entire generation “who have never been able to live in their own country”. CAFOD, the international aid agency of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales,

On pilgrimage with Christine Allen

August 12, 2022

Where would you go? It would have to be a Saint Oscar Romero pilgrimage to El Salvador. I was there quite a few years ago and it would be wonderful to go back now he is a saint – of course, he was a saint to the people there for many years. His two-roomed house,

Beirut six months on from the explosion

February 04, 2021

Six months on from the explosion that killed 200 people and injured 6,000 more, serious challenges still face Beirut. Since the blast, charitable organisations have helped the city get back on its feet.

Cafod sacks worker accused of sexual misconduct

February 15, 2018

The employee had been at Oxfam at the time

Cafod raises £1 million to support famine victims in only one week

March 29, 2017

Drought and civil war has left millions of families across East Africa on the brink of starvation

Cafod joins emergency appeal as millions face famine in East Africa

March 15, 2017

16 million people in four countries face severe hunger