This first of a series of specially produced stories on the struggles of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, we look at how some of the most marginalized people are defending their land rights with the help of Catholic Church institutions.
In their latest school bombing, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least four and injured many at the Latin Patriarchate’s Holy Family School, where hundreds of civilians were sheltering.
In a moving display of solidarity, some 200 Christians from various Canadian churches gathered in prayer and reflection in Ottawa for the culmination of the Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage movement.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Raquel Soto, our first Share Lent 2023 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.
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