Sudan crisis: joint statement calls for more funding and access

With displacement, disease and hunger now widespread in Sudan after a year of war, civil society organizations, including Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada, have issued a joint statement calling for increased funding, humanitarian access and efforts for peace.

A Palestinian man reacts at the hospital after two of his relatives were killed by an Israeli shell in Gaza January 4, 2009. Israeli troops and tanks split the Gaza Strip and ringed its main city on Sunday in an offensive against Hamas militants but civilians trapped in the Palestinian enclave suffered more bloodshed. At least 34 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed on Sunday as Israeli shells slammed into houses and Gaza's main shopping district, medical sources said. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)

Gaza: six months of suffering and slaughter

Will the international community finally go beyond statements and resolutions to actually make Israel stop the brutal bloodletting it has been visiting on Gaza for 183 days?

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Christians in Gaza: choosing life amidst chaos

Gaza’s only Catholic church has become a refuge for a dwindling but defiant community that is hanging on to peace and hope even as Israeli bombs and shells are raining death and destruction all around it.

Canada must increase international aid Le Canada doit accroître son aide internationale

Civil society coalition urges prime minister to boost international aid

In the leadup to Budget 2024, Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada and 100+ organizations have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for Canada’s international aid contributions to be increased in line with its aspirations to global progressive leadership.

An immediate and complete ceasefire is needed to end profound human suffering in the Holy Land. Un cessez-le-feu immédiat et complet est nécessaire pour mettre fin aux profondes souffrances humaines en Terre sainte.

Complete ceasefire now: a globally resonating call from the Holy Land

At a special Advent webinar, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and the secretary general of Caritas Jerusalem appealed for a complete ceasefire in Gaza, a call being echoed today by Caritas Internationalis in a Global Day of Action.

An inspiring solidarity visit

Raquel Soto, our first Share Lent solidarity visitor in five years, came from Colombia to share her message of hope and inspire us with her peasant woman’s quest for defending her territory poetically through filmmaking. Here’s a look at the Quebec leg of her visit.

A day of fraternity, a time for change

On this International Day of Human Fraternity, let us heed Pope Francis’s call to “promote a culture of peace” and work to ensure that no one can treat another’s territory like “a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.”

Civil society organizations draw the Government of Canada’s attention to the Peruvian situation

Acting as a member of national and international civil society coalitions, Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada apprises Canada’s minister of foreign affairs of the violence and repression with which the Peruvian state is responding to a deepening political crisis.

A bulletin without borders

Our Colombian partner, the Asociación Campesina de Antioquia, has published its first update on activities conducted under the aegis of an international solidarity project funded by the Government of Quebec.

Category: Peace and reconciliation