Caritas Italy Archives

Caritas, Red Cross offer safe shelter for Rome homeless amid pandemic

Jan 10, 2021

In an effort to provide immediate shelter and aid to people living on the street in Rome while also trying to curb the spread of coronavirus, the diocesan Caritas and the Italian Red Cross have started operating a testing and temporary holding center for new arrivals before they go on to regular shelters.

By Carol Glatz

Pandemic exposes the vulnerability of Italy’s ‘new poor’

Dec 20, 2020

The charity serving more than 5 million people in the Milan archdiocese, Caritas Ambrosiana, says the pandemic is revealing for the first time the depths of economic insecurity in Italy’s northern Lombardy region, which generates 20 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

By Colleen Barry

Italian activists propose peaceful alternatives to bombs for Saudi Arabia

Dec 10, 2020

Cheese, prosthetics and hydrogen generators for cars are some of the products local activists are proposing for the possible conversion of an arms factory in Italy’s southern Sardinia region if a government ban on bomb exports to Saudi Arabia continues.

By Carol Glatz

Caritas shelter in Rome closed temporarily after COVID-19 outbreak

Oct 21, 2020

A Caritas shelter located in Rome’s Termini train station suspended activities after nearly half of its residents tested positive for COVID-19.

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Hard-hit Italian hospital has no more COVID-19 patients in intensive care

Jul 11, 2020

Staff at the Pope John XXIII hospital in Bergamo — once the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy — announced they had no more patients with coronavirus in their intensive care unit.

By Carol Glatz

Church in Italy prepping for “phase 2” of COVID-19 recovery

Apr 23, 2020

In Italy, Church leaders at both the national and local levels are knee-deep in conceiving a plan of action for the so-called “phase 2” of recovery from the COVID-19 coronavirus will look like, including the Vatican, with specific focus on restarting regular liturgical life and fighting poverty.

By Elise Ann Allen

Caritas focusing on most vulnerable during coronavirus outbreak in Italy

Feb 26, 2020

As Italian authorities continue to grapple with what’s so far the biggest outbreak of coronavirus outside of Asia, Catholic aid workers continue tending to the poorest, without losing their sense of humor.

By Inés San Martín

Trevi Fountain coins to continue bringing fortune to Rome’s needy

Apr 3, 2018

While millions of tourists throw a coin over their shoulder into Rome’s Trevi Fountain hoping to return to Rome one day, the money scooped out of the fountain each week offers more concrete hope to the city’s poor.

By Junno Arocho Estevez