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Caritas

Supporting India’s flood survivors

CAFOD has given £50,000 to help survivors of floods that have swamped hundreds of villages in Bihar, leaving 2.5 million homeless and 500 dead CAFOD partner, Caritas India, is at the forefront of handing out emergency...

Motorcyclist Ben’s funeral will be a colourful affair

FINAL arrangements for Sunday’s charity ride in memory of Ben Davies (pictured) have been put in place. The motorcyclist died on 8 August when his machine collided with a car. In aid of the Caritas Community Charitable...

Half a million stranded after Indian floods

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Indian state of Bihar are still stranded in remote villages because of severe flooding there. Heavy rains over the weekend hampered efforts to get aid to the more than two million...

Plight of the Poorest Unclear - Caritas

Drop in Inequality Good, but Plight of the Poorest Unclear - Caritas Despite a reduction in overall inequality indicated by the Government's latest Social Report, Catholic social justice agency Caritas remains concerned...

Leo Vincent Gleason

By Herald staff Monday, August 25, 2008 - Added 2h ago Leo Vincent Gleason of Foxboro, a former teacher and retired senior vice president for Johnson and Higgans Insurance Co., died Wednesday at Caritas Norwood Hospital....

Church at work providing aid in Georgia

Young people are engaged in distributing food and other supplies to over 120,000 refugees from the fighting between Georgia and Russia. But Caritas volunteers in the war-torn nation of Georgia keep going. Estimates now say...

Crisis in Georgia: CRS Aids the Most Vulnerable

"CRS partners on the ground were able to swing into action immediately," says LeAnn Hager, Acting Head of the Office for CRS Georgia. As an estimated 128,000 Georgians who fled violence in early August struggle to stay afloat...

Local church helps Georgia's displaced

A woman waits for food aid in South Ossetia, Georgia [REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov courtesy of www.alernet.org] CAFOD is keeping in touch with Catholic church agencies who are responding to the humanitarian needs of people displaced...

Caritas Brings Relief to Georgia

"In addition to providing two meals a day, they have also started to distribute articles such as blankets, towels, washbasins, and hygiene products for babies and women." As Russia announced that it was withdrawing troops from...

16 treated for food poisoning after holiday

Sixteen travellers are recovering from food poisoning after eating at a restaurant in Thailand, the Centre for Health Protection says. The four males and 12 females aged 11 to 67 joined a tour group to Pattaya August 11 to 15...