With its "One Planet, One Family" campaign, CRS seeks to educate Catholics about climate change, how it is severely impacting people today, and the need to address causes and enhance resilience to a changing climate.
Nigeria accounts for 27% of malaria cases and 23% of malaria deaths across the world. And during the coronavirus pandemic, Nigeria's underfunded health care system has struggled to address both crises.
With communication and access to Ethiopia's Tigray region cut off, Catholic relief and other humanitarian agencies are having difficulty responding to those in need there and in refugee camps in neighboring Sudan.
Archbishop Paul Coakley delivered a plea on behalf of the planet Oct. 1 during a virtual policy briefing the U.S. bishops' conference held for the co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus.
While staffers with Catholic Relief Services delivered needed supplies to far-flung parts of the globe, students at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied how the agency's missions of mercy could be done with fewer car emissions that contribute to a warming planet.
Top officials at seven nationwide Catholic organizations called on congressional leaders and President Donald Trump to unite behind a new legislative package to "address the public health and economic crisis facing our country and the global community" caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the coronavirus pandemic commands global attention, for those working at organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, the health crisis is one in a long list of emergencies staff must tend to in its mission to help the world's poorest.
Fearful that the coronavirus pandemic has spread more widely than official numbers suggest, the Haitian government and numerous nongovernmental organizations are bolstering COVID-19 public awareness and hygiene programs.
Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the new chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services following his appointment by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
