“For more well over a decade Caritas Benin has been conducting a reintegration program for people who left for Europe without proper documents and subsequently decided voluntarily to return home. While they come from various regions of the West African country,”
“When I started at Caritas a little less than two years ago, I had a two-dimensional knowledge of what the agency does. I associated it mainly with Project Compassion and, sure enough, had done my share of urging people to put money in those little boxes during Lent. ”
“Church workers are frantically appealing to the international community to help avert large-scale starvation in Somalia that is experiencing famine and the worst drought in half a century that has wiped out livestock and crops.”
“The Catholic Church in Algeria has announced the "complete and definitive closure of its social assistance agency Caritas Algeria, as of October 1, 2022". Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco OP of Algiers and his retired predecessor Archbishop Paul Desfarges SJ said in a press release”
“Various aid organizations have expressed their condolences and support for Caritas as the Catholic charity organization mourns the death of two staff members and their relatives when its office in the southern Ukraine city of Mariupol was shelled by a tank.”
“Thousands of asylum-seeking migrants stranded in freezing temperatures at the borders between Belarus and Poland, Lithuania, Latvia are in dire need of basic life-saving shelter and medical aid, according to Caritas Europa, the Catholic humanitarian agency.”
“3rd week of a hunger strike in the Church of Saint-Pierre in the French port city of Calais. Two volunteers for Secours Catholique (Caritas France) – Anaïs Vogel and Ludovic Holbein – and the organization's Jesuit chaplain – Father Philippe Demeestère – have not eaten since October 11.”
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Why we need a special day to see the poor
Famine in Somalia: Catholic charity calls for "immediate action"
Algerian authorities force Caritas to close operations
Caritas mourns the death of two staff members in war-ravaged Mariupol
Caritas pleads for help to save migrants on Belarus borders
When the Church steps up for migrants
