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• Liberia refugee crisis: a happy mood

  
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  Reblogged from CAFOD blog: In the early months of 2011, more than 130,000 refugees fled into Liberia to escape fighting in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Many arrived in villages like Glarlay, which were already struggling with food and water shortages. Joseph … Continue reading →
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• Treat migrant women with dignity, says Caritas

  
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  When women migrate alone to other countries for work, “they face the psychological burden of being responsible for their families, while not being at home to care for them. They face the moral and economic burden of sending money back … Continue reading →
  3 days ago

• Italian quake victims have confidence in solidarity

  
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  Caritas Italy continues to respond to families left homeless by the magnitude-6.0 earthquake that shook northern Italy last weekend. The quake was the worst to hit the country since the L’Aquila tremor killed nearly 300 people in central Italy in … Continue reading →
  3 days ago

• Recruitment of child soldiers returns to Congo

  
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  All week they come. The children arrive at the centre tired and breathless. They say they’ve been seized by fighters who want to use them as child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s renewed wars. “We were captured on … Continue reading →
  6 days ago

• Uncalled-for Charity

  
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  More posts about "Caritas in Veritate" (Charity in Truth) " Caritas in Veritate " When I was growing up, being a "self-made man" was seen as a good thing, and so was single-minded pursuit of wealth. Celebrations of rugged individualism gave way to vituperation of materialistic greed - which wasnt an entirely ...
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• Feeling of insecurity for women breadwinners

  
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  Cleofe Maceda – Gulfnews – Monday, 21 May 2012 (originally published 12 May)  Che was still in her teens when her parents lost their house and cars to the bank, and shut down their general merchandise business in Bicol, a province southeast of Manila, Philippines. The bankruptcy left the family fighting for ...
  6 days ago

• Caritas to respond to earthquake in Italy

  
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  An earthquake in northern Italy has killed at least seven people, caused serious damage to buildings in several towns and left about 3000 people homeless. The magnitude-6.0 quake struck in the middle of Saturday night, about 35km north of the … Continue reading →
  1 week ago

• G8 must put people before banks says Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga

  
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  Caritas Internationalis Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga says that world leaders meeting at the G8 summit this weekend in Chicago. The summit looks set to be dominated by the crisis in Europe with fears growing that Greece could leave the Euro, … Continue reading →
  1 week ago

• Plight of immigrants the focus of “Migramed” conference

  
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  Every year, thousands of desperate migrants from Africa cross the Mediterranean, hoping to reach southern Europe. Caritas is focusing on their needs at the Migramed conference, held this week in Cagliari, Italy. Before trying to cross the Mediterranean, many of these … Continue reading →
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• Cambodia: Battambang battered by bad weather

  
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  Two people died and around 30 houses were destroyed after rainstorms hit Cambodia’s Battambang province on 4 May. An estimated 116 families in seven villages were affected by rainstorm in Preytralach. Among all the destroyed houses, 20 were fully destroyed … Continue reading →
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• Caritas launches waste recycling system

  
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  Caritas Pakistan yesterday launched a solid waste management system in the country’s most populous city Karachi to promote recycling. The project includes forming environmental protection groups in slums, appointing garbage collectors, distributing more than a thousand dustbins and eight wheelbarrows to collect the ...
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• Bishops speak out for transparency to fight corruption and tax dodging

  
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  Reblogged from CAFOD blog: When will people in developing countries benefit from the wealth beneath their feet? This letter was signed by 15 Bishops from three continents. Multinational companies deprive developing countries of nearly 125 billion Euros each year. We, … Continue reading →
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• ICRC pulls out of two cities

  
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  The International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday said it was suspending operations in Karachi and Peshawar and would reassess all operations in the country following the death of one of its program managers. “The recent attack against the ICRC compels us to completely reassess the balance between the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Retail clerk finds meaning in service

  
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  Emi Imamura, 26, felt she was acting on a moral imperative when she decided to become a staff member of Caritas Japan’s Kamaishi Base, an operations center for disaster-relief volunteers in Iwate Prefecture. Her duties at the base, which operates out of Kamaishi Church about 440km north of Tokyo, include volunteer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vatican Issues New Guidelines for Catholic Charities

  
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  Under new rules announced on Wednesday (May 2), the Vatican will more closely oversee the operations of  Caritas Internationalis , a global confederation of 162 national Catholic charities. The decision comes after the Vatican last year vetoed the re-election of the organizations then-secretary general, Lesley-Anne ...
  3 weeks ago

• Steward continues Massachusetts acquisitions

  
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  For-profit Steward Health Care System is slowly remaking Massachusetts hospital operations through the acquisition of facilities, reported The Patriot Ledger . Stewards most recent pending acquisition of New England Sinai Hospital in Stoughton would give it ownership of 10 facilities in the Bay State, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Love and Intelligence, Faith and Reason

  
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  More posts about "Caritas in Veritate" (Charity in Truth) " Caritas in Veritate " Last weeks post started with this excerpt: " ...Charity does not exclude knowledge, but rather requires, promotes, and animates it from within.... " ("Caritas in Veritate," 30 ) I liked the metaphor in that section of Caritas in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Places that Work: A Generative Space

  
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  Wilson Hospice House, designed by Perkins + Will, won the 2011 Caritas Project’s Generative Space Award . It is definitely a space that works. The recognition the hospice has received is appropriate because its design has a special psychological effect on the people who spend time there. We need to see more ...
  4 weeks ago

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