Caritas Internationalis Archives

Italian bishops provide $1.1 million in humanitarian aid to South Sudan

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Jul 25, 2019

An infusion of $1.1 million will benefit humanitarian programs, the resettlement of refugees and internally displaced people, and peacebuilding efforts in violence-ravaged communities in South Sudan under a program initiated by the Italian bishops’ conference.

Congolese Church leaders urge international help to contain Ebola

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Jul 19, 2019

Catholic church representatives in Congo have urged international action to contain Ebola, after an epidemic in the country’s eastern provinces was declared an emergency by the World Health Organization.

Dicastery for human development to oversee Caritas Internationalis

Catholic News Service, Vatican
May 31, 2019

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development will oversee the activity of Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based confederation of Catholic aid agencies, said a new Vatican decree.

Guilty handouts, soulless bureaucratic aid are fake charity, pope says

Catholic News Service, Vatican
May 27, 2019

Charity should be given freely and lived humbly with the poor, never letting it become hypocrisy, a slick business or a way to soothe a troubled conscience, Pope Francis said.

Pope extols interreligious dialogue as a means to combat terrorism

Pope in Morocco
Mar 30, 2019

Pope Francis on Saturday in Morocco extolled interreligious dialogue as a tool for combating terrorism.

African floods ‘wiped out entire villages’ after cyclone, says Jesuit

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Mar 26, 2019

More than 2 million people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi have been affected by a cyclone that has killed more than 700 people, with hundreds still missing in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.