If Israel invades Rafah, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed, nearly 1 million displaced Palestinians will have few or no safe places to go, said a Catholic Relief Services official who recently visited there.
Many Zambians rely on charcoal for a living. Yet charcoal production in Zambia drives high rates of deforestation. With help from Catholic Relief Services, a group of Zambian youth is campaigning against charcoal.
Economic challenges in southern Africa are disrupting the work of priests and other Catholic religious groups, forcing many to cancel or postpone crucial church programs.
Catholic-run hospitals in Zimbabwe face staff shortages and power outages as the country deals with high inflation. "We have to keep going to work even when the conditions are very difficult to keep working," one doctor said.
There's a good reason to make COVID-19 vaccines more available across the globe: "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
Everybody on Madagascar's east coast has a story about the night Cyclone Batsirai struck. The storm left 120 people dead and destroyed the homes and businesses of many families.
Security and safety risks for priests and Catholic humanitarian workers have escalated in Ethiopia at a time when millions of citizens need aid and relief in a conflict raging for 14 months.
Aid agencies including Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services responded this year to natural disasters including wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and winter storms.
Bishops in the island nation have declared Christmas Day and Dec. 26 as national days of prayer and mourning for typhoon victims and urged Catholics to redirect holday spending toward the recovery.
