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“With a realization of the gift of peace, people within a community are able to cooperate with one another in order to grow and develop. Establishing peace is the key element to that cooperation.
“The Peacebuilding: Web Toolkit for Trainers, developed by Caritas Internationalis provides elements that are essential [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 31, 2009
Cardinal Martino hails peacebuilding toolkit
March 30, 2009
G20: Bring back ethics
Fr Joe Komakoma, Secretary General of the Zambian Bishops Conference, gives his thoughts to World Leaders on the Put People First march in London, 28th March 2009. Care of Caritas England and Wales (CAFOD)
Secretary General of the Zambian Bishops Conference Fr Joe Komakoma addresses the people at the Put People First [...]
March 30, 2009
Put People First March
By Cafod staff
Ahead of the G20 meeting, Caritas England and Wales (CAFOD) campaigners took part in a march on Saturday, March 28 in London to call for a change in global economics. They were joined by Church voices from around the world.
Gradually the crowd grew.
A few campaign veterans, greeting old friends and waving their home-made [...]
March 27, 2009
DR Congo – While we wait for Peace
By Peter Kristvik Risholm, Information Officer, Caritas Norway
I’m in a small village in Rugari in the province of North-Kivu with Darya, the emergency relief coordinator for Caritas Norway. Until a couple of months ago this area was controlled by rebels.
I meet 22 year old Cecilie, who has fled from the rebels with her husband Jean [...]
March 27, 2009
The global common good in a world of scarce resources
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Statement from the CELAM-Misereor Symposium, Vatican City, 6 and 7 March 2009 (1)
Given the current situation of climate change, the international financial crisis and dwindling natural resources, as Church organisations we believe it is necessary to have a space for reflection in order to make a faith-based contribution to society. [...]
March 27, 2009
Don’t forget the developing world at the G20
Caritas Australia is calling on G20 leaders to put the poor in the developing world front and centre at next week’s London Summit.
“International bailouts from the financial crisis have exceed $4 trillion USD – yet an increase of about $50 billion per year would ensure we meet the Millennium Development Goals”, says Caritas Australia CEO [...]
March 26, 2009
Thoughts on Caritas regions and partnership
By Joseph Farah, President of Caritas Middle East and North Africa
Caritas is composed of seven regions. Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, North America, and Oceania. I’m President of Caritas Middle East and North Africa. The regional system reflects the statutes of the Caritas confederation because it [...]
March 26, 2009
Peace-on-line at Vatican Radio
Hear Caritas Internationalis Head of Communications Patrick Nicholson and Sr Aine Hughes of Caritas South Africa discuss the new Peacebuilding.caritas.org site on Vatican Radio.
March 24, 2009
Simply, Stopping Tuberculosis
3rd World Stop TB Partnership Forum 24th March – World TB Day By Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo Head of the Caritas Internationalis Delegation in Geneva and Chairperson, Catholic HIV and AIDS Network (CHAN)
When compared to the biennial International AIDS Conferences, the environment of this Forum lacked the “glitz”. The crowds were smaller, and [...]
March 23, 2009
Make a difference through peacebuilding
As Caritas launches a major new peacebuilding website Joseph Cornelius Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis’ Delegate to the UN in New York, talks about peacebuilding at a personal level
Finding a peace that lasts, a just peace that makes a genuine difference in the lives of people, this is the enormous challenge facing all of us.
There are peacemakers [...]
