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Caritas Internationalis

  • 27 Dec 2011
    Hunger warning for North Korea

    Caritas has urged the international community not to neglect millions of hungry people in North Korea.

  • 24 Feb 2011
    Caritas commits aid to New Zealand quake victims

    Caritas Aotearoa has pledged NZ$25,000 towards relief and recovery following the latest devastating quake to hit Christchurch, New Zealand.

  • 25 Aug 2009
    Catholic aid network laments restrictions on work in conflict zones

    Caritas Internationalis says its ability to support vulnerable people in conflict zones has been severely restricted by the actions of governments over the last 18 months.

  • 21 Jul 2009
    Aid worker from Caritas killed in Congo

    A Catholic aid agency is condemning the growing climate of insecurity in eastern Congo following the killing of one of its staff members.

  • 16 Feb 2009
    Churches declare continuing solidarity with the Zimbabwean people

    Catholic bishops marked yesterday as a special 'Zimbabwe Sunday' to encourage prayer and solidarity for the beleaguered people of the Southern African nation, as its new unity government emerges.

  • 15 Jun 2007
    Woman appointed head of global churches' aid network

    For the first time, a woman has been appointed as head of the global Caritas Internationalis network of official Catholic relief and development agencies. She formerly worked for the UK aid agency, CAFOD.

  • 19 Jan 2007
    Churches back global justice at World Social Forum

    Ceremonies in Nairobi's Holy Family Roman Catholic Basilica and All Saints Anglican Cathedral, together with a procession from one to the other church, are part of events being organized by the All Africa Conference of Churches/Caritas Ecumenical Platform to mark the opening of the 7th World Social Forum (WSF).

  • 17 Dec 2006
    Lutherans focus global Christian concerns about the Darfur crisis

    The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has expressed concern at reports of harassment of aid workers in Sudan's western Darfur region and has criticised the Khartoum government for "failing to provide humanitarian agencies with the support it has agreed upon" - writes Peter Kenny for Ecumenical News International.