Boston cardinal: Getting COVID vaccine 'morally correct thing to do'
- Jan 20, 2021
South Sudan has been beset by civil conflict since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. However, that is not the only challenge it faces: It is one of the country’s most threatened by the effects of climate change.
Catholic organizations across the UK have condemned a decision to cut the overseas aid budget by nearly a third.
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,
The response to the massive earthquake that hit Haiti 10 years ago was well-intentioned but did not bring about structural change that could have helped lift the country’s overwhelming poverty, said sisters reflecting on the earthquake’s legacy.
An English Catholic bishop said people must turn away from “narrow self-interest” as a leading UK conservative pressure group has called for changing the way the country gives out foreign development aid.
Bishop Frank Dewane, head of the U.S. bishops’ committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, weighs in on the Church’s social activism in the era of Pope Francis and President Trump.