By Éric Fottorino, directeur Le Monde Desclée de Brouwer, a well-known French Catholic publisher, has launched a new book ‘LA JUSTICE DANS LA PEAU: Géopolitique de l’action humanitaire’ by Denis Viénot, the previous president of Caritas Internationalis. Below is an extract from the the preface in English, French and Spanish. There is a “people” who [...]
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January 28, 2010
Davos Blog 2: a focus on values
Read this entry in Spanish or French By Lesley-Anne Knight, Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis Last year at Davos an absence of values within society – and especially within the business world – was identified as a key contributory factor behind the global financial crisis. In the words of some commentators, it was as much [...]
January 20, 2010
Dramatic rescue in Haiti
Available in Spanish A second woman was rescued by the Caritas team from the ruins of Port-au-Prince’s Cathedral. Earlier, a Caritas organized Search and Rescue team has pulled a woman out from the rubble of Haiti’s quake. It took two hours to pull Enu Zizi from the rubble. She was in pain but ok. Cancun [...]
January 20, 2010
Haiti earthquake: one day a new beginning
Available in French and Spanish By Michelle Hough, Caritas Communications Officer, Port-au-Prince, Tuesday BC Radio Ulster interviewed me this morning and asked how this compared to other disasters I’d been to. The only earthquake I’ve worked on was the one in L’Aquila, Italy last year. When I arrived on Easter Sunday, five days after the [...]
January 17, 2010
Haiti: el dolor y la tristeza
De P. Antonio Sandoval Los días han estado marcados por el dolor y la tristeza de la gente que prácticamente ha perdido todo, excepto, la fe y la esperanza. Cada noche cuando me encuentro acostado logro escuchar los cantos de la gente que ora en su lengua a Dios y agradece la vida aun en [...]
January 15, 2010
Hope dwindling after Haiti quake
By Fr Antonio Sandoval, Caritas Latin America and Caribbean Regional Coordinator, from Port-au-Prince Four days have passed since the earthquake in Haiti and hopes of finding people alive under the rubble is beginning to fade. Nevertheless, there are bits of good news. Twenty people were just pulled out of a hotel. The searching continues. We [...]
March 31, 2009
Cardinal Martino hails peacebuilding toolkit
Read this in Spanish and French “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 [...]
March 27, 2009
The global common good in a world of scarce resources
Read this post in Spanish 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 [...]
February 12, 2009
World Day of the Sick: Pope Benedict’s message
This year we direct our attention particularly to children, the weakest and most defenceless creatures, and, amongst them, to the sick and suffering children. There are little human beings who carry in their bodies the consequences of illnesses which have made them invalids and others who fight against diseases that are now incurable despite the [...]
