CAFOD Archives

Refugees face new disaster as COVID-19 threatens camps

Jul 15, 2020

Millions of refugees fleeing conflict are facing the prospect of another disaster: The spread of COVID-19.

Aid agencies warn of Yemen’s health care collapse, famine risk

Jun 17, 2020

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.

By Dale Gavlak

UK plan to end independence of international development office ‘seriously misguided’

Jun 17, 2020

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.

By Charles Collins

English Catholic aid agency launches appeal to help poorest areas deal with COVID-19

May 2, 2020

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Warning that the COVID-19 coronavirus is “a tsunami heading towards the homes of millions of poor communities,” England’s leading Catholic international aid agency has launched an appeal to help prepare vulnerable communities from the effects of the pandemic. “The potential scale of the pandemic across Africa,

By Charles Collins

UK must ‘put house in order’ ahead of hosting UN climate summit, says Catholic agency

Feb 6, 2020

England’s leading Catholic development charity says the UK must “put its own house in order” before hosting a major United Nations conference on climate change.

By Charles Collins

Catholic aid agency praises UN court ordering Myanmar to protect Rohingya

Jan 25, 2020

An order by the United Nations top court for Myanmar to prevent genocide against its minority Rohingya population “sends a clear message,” according to England’s chief Catholic humanitarian agency.

By Charles Collins