Catholic Relief Services in the News
- The Virtues of Non-Profit Humanitarian Aid
- If U.S. foreign policy is to be successful, the civil participatory aspect of our democracy needs to be reclaimed.
- source: Washington Post, September 2010
- Faith-Based Aid Succeeds by Focusing on the Aid
- Can faith-based relief agencies work in countries where the local population subscribes to another religion?
- source: Ottawa Citizen, August 2010
- Pakistan: Flooding Spreads, Relief Efforts Continue
- Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled a southern district today after the Indus River crushed a levee and flooded new areas.
- source: Vatican Radio, August 2010
- Pakistan Flood Aid Helps Fight Terrorism as Peace `Fragile,' Qureshi Says
- Three weeks after Pakistan's worst-ever floods began their sweep through northwest villages hit by militants and down the Indus River, the cost threatens to hinder the economy for years.
- source: Bloomberg, August 2010
- Floods Hamper Aid Efforts as Disease Threatens Millions of Pakistanis
- Pakistanis faced new dangers posed by disease as emergency response teams and international aid agencies struggled to rush supplies to millions of people forced to flee the country's worst flooding in 80 years.
- source: Catholic News Service, August 2010
- US Bishops Stress Needs of Haitian Women, Children
- "The international community must remain steadfast in working with the Haitian government to reconstruct the country and strengthen its institutions," Archbishop Wenski stated. "The survival and long-term future of the Haitian people are at stake."
- source: Zenit, August 2010
- UN, Aid Workers Warn of Disaster as Famine Looms in Niger
- Niger is now facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, with almost half the country's population in desperate need of food and up to one in six children suffering from acute malnutrition, aid officials say.
- source: Associated Press, August 2010
- Catholic Relief Services Providing Aid to Pakistan Flood Victims Despite Continued Rain
- "It's extremely difficult to go and get people - it's extremely difficult to deliver aid to people."
- source: EWTN, August 2010
- Church Agencies Step Up Relief Work as Pakistan Struggles With Flood
- Church charities in Pakistan are gearing up for prolonged relief and rehabilitation work as the South Asian nation is faced with the worst flood in its history.
- source: Catholic New York, August 2010
- Jacques Montouroy, Catholic Relief Services Worker and Beloved Soccer Coach, Dies at 63
- "What I really love is to have them play spectacular football," Mr. Montouroy said in 2000. "To have them do things other people can't do."
- source: Washington Post, August 2010
- Renowned aid worker Jacques Montouroy dies
- Hundreds of mourners accompanied the casket of French national and legendary aid worker Jacques Montouroy.
- source: Associated Press, August 2010
- Church Aid Workers Try to Reach Pakistanis Homeless, Hungry from Floods
- Church aid workers in Pakistan were trying to reach hundreds of thousands of people displaced and rendered homeless by the rain and floods that had claimed more than 1,200 lives in Pakistan's mountainous northwestern region.
- source: U.S. Catholic, August 2010
- The Face of Love
- In 35 to 40 seconds of terror—only 35 seconds—lives changed forever in Haiti, and around the world for those in solidarity with their suffering brothers and sisters.
- source: The Official Catholic Directory, July 2010
- Computers Intersect with Sociology to Sift through 'All Our Ideas'
- Catholic Relief Services of Baltimore faced a daunting challenge: getting advice from several thousand people at once.
- source: Princeton University, July 2010
- The World Cup and a Goat
- I was told a ticket to get into one of the World Cup games general seating was costing over $300. Three of those tickets could pay for a new home I saw being built in West Africa for flood victims.
- source: San Antonio Express-News, July 2010
- Beyond Devastation
- Amidst the devastation, signs of progress in Port-au- Prince abound; on the hills men with picks and shovels dig latrines and drainage ditches to provide sanitation and permit proper rain run-off to prevent flooding and mudslides, part of a CRS pay-for-work program. In the temporary camps, the most unexpected businesses have sprouted.
- source: Catholic New York, July 2010
- Catholics Provide Charity in Action through CRS
- A very real way in which Catholics today can clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and comfort the sorrowing is through Catholic Relief Services.
- source: Catholic Spirit, July 2010
- York Pastor Leaving for Haiti
- The Rev. Paula Stecker will join her husband, Carl, who is on staff with the Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services. He has been working in the capital of Port-au-Prince since February on a project to reconstruct and improve the 120-bed St. Francis de Sales Hospital, a Catholic medical center that was 85 percent destroyed in the Jan. 12 quake.
- source: York Daily Record, July 2010
- Drought in West Africa Brings Concerns, but Still Room for Hope
- A recent study by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates 7.8 million people in Niger face extreme malnutrition brought on by prolonged drought.
- source: U.S. Catholic, July 2010
- Obama Looks to Bush's Worldwide Strategy on AIDS
- President Barack Obama is trying to bring home some of the much-lauded strategies his predecessor used to fight AIDS around the world.
- source: Associated Press, July 2010
- Haiti, Six Months After the Quake
- Six months ago--on January 12, 2010--a massive earthquake devastated the nation of Haiti. But even as new disasters and events have pushed Haiti from the headlines, the work there, to rebuild a people and a nation, continues.
- source: WYPR Midday with Dan Rodricks, July 2010
- Church Advocates Push Countries to Begin to Overcome "Resource Curse"
- Studies show that countries whose economies depend heavily on exports of natural resources such as minerals, oil and natural gas tend to be poorer and less democratic than those with more diverse economies.
- source: Catholic News Service, July 2010
- Economy Down, Catholic Giving Up
- These cuts weren't easy, says Wiest, since CRS has one of the lowest overhead budgets in the charity field, a meager 6%.
- source: National Catholic Register, July 2010
- A Catholic Priest in Kyrgyzstan
- Father Krzysztof is Polish; the people in Kyrgyzstan are not, strictly speaking, his people. Also, he is Catholic; they are not. But he cares for them, ministering to them and grieving when they suffer. If a peace the world does not understand is ahead for Kyrgyzstan, if its people will someday not be afraid, it will be thanks to people like him, who stay close to the suffering.
- source: America Magazine, June 2010
- Pope appeals for end to ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan
- The U.S. bishops' Catholic Relief Services was working with local nongovernmental organizations in Osh to provide appropriate humanitarian response for both the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz. As of June 21, at least two CRS teams were in Jalal-Abad, assessing the situation near the border.
- source: Catholic News Service, June 2010
- Foreign service
- Overseeing projects in more than 100 countries, West Roxbury native Ken Hackett, 63, president of Catholic Relief Services, hopes to raise his agency's profile at home.
- source: Boston Globe, June 2010
- Virus Ravages Cassava Plants in Africa
- Here in Uganda, because there are so few government agricultural agents, the Cassava Initiative is building its own parallel network. Its agents have no power to destroy a crop or seize a truckful of diseased cuttings. But they do have rugged minicomputers with software to help them teach farmers to recognize the disease. They can also pinpoint a suspect field's GPS location, take photographs and send them from any Internet cafe.
- source: New York Times, May 2010
- CRS reps say Afghans thirst for education, willing to work hard for it
- After 30 years of war and repressive rule of the Taliban, today only 28 percent of the people in Afghanistan can read and write and 18 percent of them are women and girls, according to Catholic Relief Services representatives visiting the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
- source: Catholic News Service (via The Catholic Sun), May 2010
- U.S. Forces Wind Down Haiti Relief Efforts
- Herard says the drainage system has been a lifesaver at the golf course. "When we first came here, every time it rains it's like a pigpen." But, he says, McFarland's crew tackled this problem. "They made canals, bridges, stuff to keep the water from getting to the people. It's wonderful, beautiful work. And everybody loved them."
- source: NPR, May 2010
- In West Bank, Camps Introduce Concept of Nonviolence
- The camps are aimed at instilling young Palestinians with leadership qualities and nonviolence skills. For a majority of the participants it was the first time they had been urged to consider nonviolent responses as a viable option to the stress in their daily lives.
- source: Catholic News Service, May 2010
- Months After Haiti's Earthquake, Aid Workers Still Under Stress
- When a massive earthquake struck Haiti's capital city in January, hundreds of charity workers lost loved ones and homes, instantly needing the very services they had provided to residents of Port-au-Prince for decades through private donations.
- source: Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 2010
- Planning for Haiti's Future
- The international community has pledged more than $5 billion to help rebuild earthquake-ravaged Haiti. We look at what's needed to revitalize a nation with virtually no infrastructure, and consider some of the ideas for lifting Haiti out of poverty.
- source: Kojo Nnamdi Show, April 2010
- Getting Haiti's Earthquake Homeless to Move
- Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has already registered about 1,000 families who intend to live in Corail, and in the coming week and a half, four buses an hour will be taking camp dwellers to the new settlement.
- source: Time, April 2010
- Rebuilding Haiti: Getting It Right This Time
- Catholic Relief Services has been supporting effective Haitian self-help efforts, strengthening Haitian civil society and coordinating with institutions of the Haitian government for more than 50 years.
- source: New York Times, April 2010
- Easter Hope in Haiti
- CRS and other relief groups are also working on long-term recovery plans. But it's hard to get to that when meeting immediate needs is still such a huge undertaking. The magnitude of it all can be overwhelming, but de Goeij says, for him, hope gets defined in the small moments.
- source: Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, April 2010
- As rains arrive, CRS eyes new shelter strategies for homeless Haitians
- With the rainy season on the doorstep in Haiti, Isaac Boyd, an emergency shelter expert for Catholic Relief Services, and a coalition of relief agencies from around the world are trying to tackle the impossible.
- source: U.S. Catholic, March 2010
