Bishop Gassis’ visits came in the middle of decades of on-again, off-again fighting between the central government and several rebel movements in the South and other peripheral areas of the country.
Humanitarian Aid
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As South Sudan war drags on, churches do their best to help displaced
Since civil war began to rip apart South Sudan’s fragile democracy in 2013, roughly one-third of the country’s 12 million people have been forced to flee their homes.
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It’s bodies against bullets at the Gaza border
Hamas, it seems, has taken Israeli contempt for Palestinian life as a cultural and political weakness that Gazans can turn against the oppressor state.
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As Syrian war grinds on, humanitarian aid slow to ramp up
Getting humanitarian aid to desperate populations during the conflict has largely been contingent on the warring sides to agree to a temporary cease fire.
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Catholic Extension helps Puerto Rican parishes continue recovery efforts
Parishes across the island have exhausted themselves in providing material and spiritual comfort.
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Christian activists warn of slaughter of Syrian civilians in Afrin
People in and around Afrin are facing the warplanes, tanks, artillery and other heavy weapons of NATO’s second-largest standing army, Turkey.
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Nuns fight child trafficking in coastal Kenya
The area is known as a haven for sex tourism.
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Oxfam scandal provokes U.K. political debate on overseas aid
Recent allegations about one of the United Kingdom’s biggest and best-known charities has driven increased demands from some quarters that overseas aid be reduced, if not abolished completely.
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Are N.G.O.s in Haiti doing more harm than good?
Leaving Haiti should be a goal of every N.G.O.
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Trump’s budget proposal rejected by U.S. church leaders
To the consternation of humanitarian, health and civic activists, the budget proposal includes deep cuts or restructuring of international aid and social service programs.