The Churches of Jerusalem insist unequivocally that “the people of Gaza, families who have lived for generations in the land of their ancestors, must not be forced into exile.”
This CAAAP statement, issued following a multi-stakeholder conference, responds to the climate crisis in the Amazon by calling for collective action to end criminality, defend water rights and protect environmental defenders.
As we mark International Development Week, I would like to draw attention to a country that, despite facing many challenges, continues demonstrating incomparable resilience: Haiti.
We express our solidarity with the Congolese people, especially in North and South Kivu, and with the thousands of children, women and men displaced by the conflict.
As the Gaza ceasefire brings 15 months of carnage to a close, the international community must re-examine its role and address the urgent needs for humanitarian aid, reconstruction, justice and lasting peace.
From Bethlehem, where he led the Canadian delegation to a meeting hosted by Caritas Jerusalem mere yards from where Jesus was born, our interim executive director calls pilgrims to witness the pain and the power of the Holy Land.
Our fourth Advent story is about how your solidarity helps a young social worker in war-torn Gaza imagine a better future despite the devastation being visited on her people.
Our third Advent story is about how an irrepressible optimist went about spreading good cheer in the bleakest of circumstances in Gaza.
Speaking as a panelist on a webinar on Palestine organized by Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada, a prominent Jesuit scholar emphasized that understanding the long history of the conflict in Gaza is a prerequisite to establishing just and lasting peace.
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