Catholic Relief Services Archives

Three African countries show varied preparations for COVID pandemic

Mar 31, 2020

Caritas Ghana has put in place a nine-month emergency response plan with the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference to ensure that the poor and vulnerable receive critical and basic services in the two archdioceses most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

By Damian Avevor

Archbishop Coakley, CRS welcome $2.2 trillion in federal COVID-19 relief

Mar 30, 2020

Citing provisions of the $2.2 trillion federal relief package that will aid poor and vulnerable people as well as workers, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City thanked Congress and President Donald Trump for putting the law in place.

By Catholic News Service

Catholic aid worker calls on leaders to be ‘factual, accurate’ after chloroquine overdose in Nigeria

Mar 28, 2020

An official for a Catholic aid agency in Nigeria says international leaders “have a moral obligation to ensure that information they pass out to the public is factual, accurate and evidence-based,” after three Nigerians overdosed on chloroquine after President Donald Trump endorsed it as a treatment for COVID-19.

By Crux Staff

Catholic aid workers prepare for coronavirus pandemic to hit East Africa

Mar 25, 2020

Strained health systems, access to clean water and limited hygiene supplies are some of the challenges facing East Africa as it prepares to face the coronavirus pandemic, according to a representative of Catholic Relief Services.

By Crux Staff

Catholic agencies seek stimulus funding to meet expected surge in clients

Mar 24, 2020

Several Catholic charitable agencies are among more than 200 nonprofits urging Congress to include $60 billion in aid to help them meet an expected surge in requests for services from unemployed people.

By Dennis Sadowski

No Mass, no offertory: Parish, diocesan, national collections take a hit

Mar 20, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — One byproduct of canceled Masses is no offertory collection. And a byproduct of no offertory collection is puncture wounds in the budgets of parishes, dioceses and national collections. “It’s a big hit, and it’s gonna hurt,” said Patrick Markey, executive director of the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference,

By Mark Pattison