Monthly Archives: December 2008
A day in Gaza
By Caritas Jerusalem staff One day in Gaza, while people strolled through the markets, children sitting in classes wondering what they will do after the teacher will finish explaining Math and Science, and the other students wondering about the match … Continue reading
Filed under Emergencies, Gaza crisis, Peace and Reconciliation
Caritas Jerusalem statement on Gaza attacks
Caritas Jerusalem unreservedly condemns violence on either side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means to achieve political end. However, the continuing shelling of towns and urban centers in the Gaza Strip perpetrated by the massively superior force of arms … Continue reading
Filed under Emergencies, Gaza crisis, Peace and Reconciliation
WSF update
English Caritas Nigeria is participating at the forthcoming World Social forum event in Belem, Brazil. We are registered for a workshop presentation. Our presentation is most likely to be on the issue of the oil and gas sector and the … Continue reading
Filed under World Social Forum 2009
Christmas cheer in Baghdad
There is nothing unusual about a Christmas fair in a Church in December. Only this time, there is. It’s in Baghdad. A city in a country both torn apart by sectarian violence. But this year Caritas Iraq’s volunteers organized such … Continue reading
Filed under Peace and Reconciliation
Thank you Caritas Poznan
By Chrisitine Campaeu On the last day of our trip to Poland, the Caritas Internationalis delegation made a farewell stop to Caritas Poznan. This visit was in order to thank them for all their local support during the launch of … Continue reading
Filed under Climate change
More on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On 12 December 2008, the Human Rights Council marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a Commemorative session held in Geneva. The Human Rights Council opened the Commemorative session with children reading out the 30 … Continue reading
Filed under Peace and Reconciliation
Caritas top ten of the web
See what we like on Caritas websites around the world… 10. Caritas India’s plant a tree campaign: 9. CRS(A Caritas US member) film: Hope, faith and treatment. HIV, AIDS and the Catholic Church: 8. Secours Catholique (Caritas France) multimedia campaign … Continue reading
Filed under Caritas news, Top Ten of the Web
CRS staff member dies of Cholera in Zimbabwe
A national staff member of CRS, one of the Caritas members in the USA, has died of cholera in Zimbabwe. Our sympathy and support goes to all CRS staff, especially those in Zimbabwe.
Filed under Caritas news, Emergencies, Zimbabwe
Introducing the first blind Tamil lawyer
We’d like to share this happy news. Atputharajah is a blind boy. He came to Caritas Sri Lanka’s branch in Jaffna in the north for educational assistance with his mother in 1999. They are from a very poor family. Fr.Jeyakumar’s … Continue reading
Filed under Caritas news, Sri Lanka Conflict
Our man at the UN reports on a special day
By Joseph Cornelius Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis Head of Delegation at the UN headquarters in New York Among the countless anniversaries and commemorations which unfold at United Nations headquarters in New York City, this 60th anniversary unfolded on a Spring-like day … Continue reading
Filed under Caritas news, Peace and Reconciliation
