Behind the gold, a child’s fear
The story of a five-year-old child typifies the fear that families experience as rising gold prices drive violent illegal mining in the Amazon basin.
The story of a five-year-old child typifies the fear that families experience as rising gold prices drive violent illegal mining in the Amazon basin.
As a hunger crisis driven by conflict, climate change and other complexities grips many parts of the world, Christians are reaching out across continents to mount a response at every level from the global to the local.
With the war on Gaza appearing to have mercifully ended at long last, our partner Caritas Jerusalem has resumed its much-needed humanitarian work with the distribution of infant formula.
Having helped people in Gaza and the West Bank through two years of unimaginable adversity, Caritas Jerusalem expresses “deep relief and hope upon hearing the news of the agreement to end the war.”
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.
By Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, S.J., President, Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) His Eminence Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno was the Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru,
CIDSE warns that regressive legal reforms recently instituted in Peru threaten civil society groups’ ability to support marginalized communities in their struggles against injustice.
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