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CAFOD appeals to Catholic community to help bring Sudan back ‘from the brink’

April 24, 2024

Britain’s leading Catholic aid agency is making an emergency appeal to support families impacted by the conflict in Sudan. Over 8.5 million Sudanese have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan since the war between rival militaries erupted in April 2023, according to the United Nations. CAFOD is the official international aid agency of the Catholic Church

Pope condemns hitting civilian targets after Caritas warehouse destroyed by Russians in Lviv

September 20, 2023

ROME – Pope Francis has condemned the routine use of “conventional weapons” against civilian targets in a message to Ghanian Cardinal Peter Turkson, sent the day after a warehouse in Ukraine containing several tons of humanitarian aid was destroyed in a Russian drone attack. In his Sept. 19 message, the pope pointed to what he

Church rushes to Morocco’s aid after devastating earthquake

September 13, 2023

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – As Morocco continues to struggle to cope with its worst earthquake to strike a major urban centre in a century, which so far has left almost 3,000 people dead and at least that number injured, Catholic leaders are scrambling to contribute to the relief effort. Rescue teams are engaged in a race

Catholic leaders urge EU to be guided by solidarity in vaccine distribution

February 23, 2021

In a joint statement Feb. 23, Caritas Europa and the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU (COMECE) said that “commitment to solidarity must be the decisive criterion in this historic moment.”