The famine in Gaza, officially confirmed last week by the UN, is caused by what Caritas Internationalis denounces as “a machinery of annihilation, sustained by impunity and the silence, or complicity, of powerful nations.”
Writing to minister of foreign affairs Anita Anand, leading Canadian NGOs including Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada urged the Government of Canada to stop arms transfers to Israel even as it imposes mass starvation on Gaza.
On July 25, 2025 the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an important pastoral letter on the Jubilee, debt and economic justice. Read the letter.
Victims’ groups and civil society organizations denounce a Peruvian law that proposes to forgive many who egregiously violated human rights during two decades of conflict.
In Israel’s actions in Gaza, Caritas Internationalis sees “a blatant disregard for the values and fundamental principles of humanity” and clear violations of various laws and conventions, “including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
Israel’s shelling of a Gaza church, which has left at least three dead and many injured, is only the latest atrocity in its increasingly murderous and widening regional rampage.
A trio of Palestinian priests from Taybeh strongly condemns the violence, theft and arson perpetrated on their townsfolk by illegal Israeli settlers with the connivance and protection of the Israeli state.
A “sign of inverted priorities,” Canada’s decision to increase military spending to 5 per cent of its GDP must be reversed for the sake of human dignity.
Young people are present and involved at Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada. The proof? Several of our youth representatives and a youth ambassadors attended the G7 Jubilee People’s Forum, held from June 12 to 14. They were keen to share their learning and experiences.
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